[Looking for alternative way to interface with the Electronics Explorer... My USB is DESTROYED.]

Going to try hot gluing these in place and then connecting them to a new USB micro which will be fixed in place.

Do you think that this will work?

 

[Looking for alternative way to interface with the Electronics Explorer... My USB is DESTROYED.]

Thank you JColvin and attila.

attila, is the ground contact just connected to the ground plane and ID goes nowhere?

[Looking for alternative way to interface with the Electronics Explorer... My USB is DESTROYED.]

The USB plug was yanked on one too many times and started failing. When it was broke more than it worked, I fixed it enough that I could use the board. I ended up fixing it a couple more times but the last time there just wasn't enough left to succeed.

 

It really sucks because that board was central to so much of getting hobby projects going. It lived a mostly good life since I bought it back in 2011 an I'm not ready to say good bye.

Unless I can get the interface back, it's just a breadboard (a pretty one tho!) so I'm open to try anything if there's a chance.

I'm hoping that there are some solder pads on the bottom that can be accessed, maybe if some supporting electronics or something were in place. Or there's a secret backdoor JTAG if you plug lines in to the right combination of board outputs?

Anyhow, if there are schematics anyone has for the USB area, I'd love to see them.

 

Please help!

[Anyone have a copy of "Cerebot32mX4.h"]

I'm getting back in to my old boards and I can't find the pin and port file for the 32mx4.

Hoping someone has a copy I can have.

 

Thanks!