Cable for PICkit

[Signal]

I like to make little things by hand. It eats my time but adds a (childish) joy. I use a slightest opportunity to make even unpractical things if they inspire me. Sometimes I motivated to test an idea, sometimes I expect a nice look or just want to try a tool that did not try before.

At this time there was a coincidence: I needed a new ICSP cable between PICkit4 and target board and I found a braided sleeve on a shelve.

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All wires initially have equal lengths so after assembling they are naturally indexed.

 
Five nested shrinkable tubes made the edge.



 
The final look reminds me something...

[Parmin]

That is sexy.
But same color wire.. hmm confusing at the end point.

[Signal]

That is sexy.
But same color wire.. hmm confusing at the end point.

Colored wires definitely would be sexier. But could be too sexy ;)
PTFE isolation has its advantages and I love it. Not many colors for PTFE isolated wires. That is why here they are length-indexed - shortest is No.1, next - 2, longest is No.8. That is enough at soldering time. And even more than enough - such way is easier than to remember which color is for.

To be completely honest... the same length wires twisted in one cord result the aligned ends in case of 5 wires. in case of 8 wires one wire is in the middle and is untwisted, and thus passes a shorter path - at the end it is quite longer (in my case about 3 mm for 8 wires and 1.5mm for 6 wires) that could be corrected.

[metal]

really nice work :-D