I’ve been replacing some DisplayLink devices with Raspberry Pi screens, and now the time had come for the thing that both receives Z-Stick commands and sends Telldus commands to wall outlets.
The problem is that there’s just two USB ports, and they’re at the bottom of the screen, and I don’t want anything to stick out below. (But behind is fine, because of how it’s going to hang.)
And the Telldus thing has a Mini-USB connector. Yes! Mini! Not Micro! Mini! Nothing uses Mini these days, so angled connectors don’t exist. (Cables with angled plugs exist, but less cabling is less cabling.)
So I went and had a look at one of my boxes of connectors from the last three decades… nope…
And the other? What do my eyes spy!
Yes! It’s an angled A to A, and then an A to Mini!
Er…. That looks pretty wobbly, eh?
But then I found this U one.
And that’s OK! Looks less wobbly! The Z-Stick is smaller and can stick out that way; that’s fine.
Not as impressive as this classic, I guess.
Perfection!
See? Thingies are completely hidden by the screen, and I can now glue the screen into the shelf where it’s supposed to go.
The moral is: Never throw away connectors.