Today's lesson: never underestimate the spare parts drawer

That old and slightly damaged notebook keyboard required a 1mm 24 pin FPC connector. I bought a DIP one (that is: two rows, 12 pins each, pins are 1mm-spaced; the second row has a 1mm offset) for easier soldering.

In my spare parts drawer I just found a 11-pin female-to-female 2mm spare cable (apparently cannibalized from a logic board of a VHS player bought some 30 years ago). I cut it and now have two 11-pin female jumpers: now I only need to solder two pins.

Just placed there to shoot a photo. I'll have to glue or tape them.

Never underestimate the spare parts drawer. But a couple minutes extra on the parts supplier website could have solved even better the "1mm to 1/10inch dilemma".

Anyway, this fits in the "building a portable computer using mostly spare parts" philosophy. Can't wait to get the keyboard up and running...