Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout Review

Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout Kit Review(Revision A, DIP-64)

Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) Designed by Tall Dog
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) on bread­board — Designed by Tall Dog

Assembly of a 64 pin break­out board for the Teensy 3.5/3.6 USB devel­op­ment board.

Designed by Tall-Dog and avail­able on Tindie, this break­out board breaks out all the inac­ces­si­ble bot­tom pads and all 18 addi­tion­al dig­i­tal GPIO pins on the Teensy 3.5/3.6 series boards. A stan­dard ver­sion that breaks out all pins is also avail­able. It comes as a kit, bare­board, or ful­ly assem­bled with a Teensy 3.5 or 3.6.
I ordered the DIP-64 kit ver­sion and sol­dered a Teensy 3.5 with “Flip-Pins” designed by Oshchip to con­nect both together.

Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) Kit
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) Kit
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) Kit parts
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) Kit parts

The kit was well pack­aged with good qual­i­ty parts.
The assem­bly instruc­tions are avail­able online, and the kit goes togeth­er well. There are over 200 sol­der con­nec­tions need­ed to com­plete the assem­bly, and it is impor­tant to fol­low the sequence in the instruc­tions as some con­nec­tions are inac­ces­si­ble after cer­tain parts are assem­bled. The board is well thought out, and is well labeled with pin iden­ti­fi­ca­tion silkscreened on the board. Jumpers are includ­ed with the kit and are option­al in place of the switches.

Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) Board
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) Board
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) pogo pins
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) pogo pins
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) assembled USB end
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) assem­bled USB end
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) assembled SD card end
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) assem­bled SD card end

I high­ly rec­om­mend this break­out board if you need to access the bot­tom pads of the Teensy USB devel­op­ment board for pro­to­typ­ing. This break­out board ver­sion also fits into a stan­dard 64-pin DIP sock­et. There is also an A2 revi­sion that adds scored car­ri­er rails with mount­ing holes now.

Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) Pinout card
Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64) Pinout card

2 Replies to “Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout Review”

  1. Hello, the Micro USB cable of the first pic­ture, is a com­mer­cial one or it is a home­made cable? I like that small connector.

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