I have many component drawers full of breakout boards for various different development boards: Arduinos, Picos, and microcontroller dev boards of all shapes and sizes. It can be frustrating when I want to quickly prototype a circuit idea and I have to go rummaging around trying to find the right breakout. Well, this Universal Breakout Board design makes quick work of breaking out DIP-style development boards of just about any length or width.
Simply plug in whatever DIP package development board (or even bare chip!) and get a 0.1″ female pin header with all the pins broken out. This is particularly useful when trying to use development boards like the NodeMCU, which would hardly fit on a standard breadboard.
The Standard design brings out half of the pins to each side of the board, where both a male and female header can be soldered to attach jumper cables or wire. The Pro design brings all the pins out to each side, meaning you can keep all the cables confined to one side, or even solder in a male header and plug the breakout into a PCB if needed.
Having a few of these in your lab could replace unique breakouts for many different devices! Reduce some clutter and make your next prototype look a bit neater. Turkish designer Mete Hoca also sells pinout stickers for ATmega328P and Arduinos, as well as some other neat tools!
