UCTRONICSMale to Female GPIO Ribbon Cable 40pin 8inch Breadboard Jumper Wires for Connection Raspberry Pi 5 3 2 Model B B+ w/ 3.5/5 inch TFT Touch Screen LCD Display

This review is for UCTRONICS Male to Female GPIO Ribbon Cable 40pin. There isn't a lot to say about this cable, and that is actually a good thing. Everything was done right on the cable that I received. It has the correct pin connections on both connectors to extend a Raspberry Pi GPIO hat outside the case. The strain relief on the cables is decent and the plastic connectors are good. Really, there is no reason to have a color coded cable, but it does let you verify that the cable is wired correctly. It is kind of nice to look at instead of another dull grey ribbon cable. I'm using this cable with a GPIO breakout board HAT that has LEDs, so it was very easy to tell that the cable was wired correctly. The length is enough to get outside the case without a lot of extra to flop around or introduce noise on the signals. I won't put the top on my case, but this cable will fit nicely through a small slot that is open on at least one side. The connectors obviously won't fit through a slot the size of the ribbon cable unless it is at a seam between the top and bottom.

excellent tool for raspberry PI projects.

These are my initial thoughts. The GPIO is well made and all the soldering looks good. The breadboard is like all the others I have. I must say that I am very excited to use it, as I haven't yet. The quality is so much better than the REXQualis I purchased and that sits in a drawer. Will update as I use it more.

First the minuses.(-) Multicolor cable is pointless and serves zero purpose other than to increase cost.(-) Breadboard is segmented and has two groups of power rails. The ad shows this but I missed it. This means if you want the power rails to be contiguous, you have to jumper them. More of an inconvenience than anything else but it does cost you 8 pin positions. (see my attached photo where I added red and black jumper wires )Pluses(+) Breakout board is narrower than most GPIO Breakouts and therefore gives access to three rows of pins on each side.(Blue board in my pics) Competitors products such as the Kuman board(Red board in my pics) are too wide and sacrifice a row of pin access by blocking two rows.(+) Board has separate power pins which plug directly into the power rails. This is a HUGE benefit because it eliminates the need to run power jumpers directly off the already crowded GPIO power and ground and makes wiring much simpler.(+) The board has an LED power light "H U G E!!!!" advantage because it gives you that extra confidence that you have the ribbon cable plugged in correctly and that you have power going to the breadboard rails. This alone is worth buying this product. I can't tell you how many times when I am swapping out breadboards I inadvertently plug in the ribbon cable backwards. This fixes that.Note: Most breakout board use the Kuman(Red board in my photo) method and make the board too wide and require you to sacrifice a row of pins. There are other's that have the power pins like this board but I don't think they have the LED power indicator light.There's only one thing I wish they had which only one manufacture I've seen ever produced. That would be the ability to jumper select whether or not the power pins are 3Vdc vs 5Vdc. Unfortunately the maker of that product was in England and went out of business.

The "features" listed for this review seemed to be entirely unrelated to the function so were left blank. This item arrived quickly and made my prototyping efforts for the Raspberry Pi so much easier! The individual wires on the GPIO header can be difficult to work with and come loose easily. This gave a clean interface from the Pi to my breadboard for doing prototyping circuits. It also allowed for easy replacement and testing of different "models" of the Pi without having an unruly clump of wiring to contend with and sort. Very pleased.

Found these for a costume I was building... I believe these would work great if I ever build a Raspberry Pie PC...but they were perfect for what I intended them to use on. Thanks!

Product was not assembled properly and fried the connected component.

I could not be happier with this purchase. It came well packaged in a very nice container to boot. The container is very well designed to help with the various lengths of the component in the kit. I will be looking for this company's name the next time I need to purchase similar types of items. Kudos!