Switching the side of the pixl screen - ribbon cable

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2020-06-13 by cozezien

I'm looking to improve the NFC performance of the Pixeljs, as it's under the screen, I'm going to move it on the other side of the board (picture attached). The position isn't stable (the ribbon cable works though), but long term I'd like to reverse the screen (second picture).

Is there an easy(ish) way for adapting the ribbon cable connector? I've never done this, but hopefully there would be an adapter that could plug into the current socket to reverse and flip the connector pins.

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[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2020-06-14 by @gfwilliams

I guess whatever you did would have to put the wires in the opposite order? It should be possible to get some solid-core ribbon cable of a pitch that would fit - then you could remove the connector and re-solder it to the cable.

It's not going to be that pretty, but it might be good enough?