So after my last post about the latch, someone over on Twitter (im not calling it X) said that it would be fun to make it work like a GameBoy power switch. For anyone unfamiliar the sliding action of the switch locks the cartridge in place.
I had a bit of a play with the CAD to see how that would work, and it might be possible. The latch would be on the thin side though, so I thought I would check the datasheet for the M.2 socket and see how it works
Unlike the normal M.2 sockets I have come across in the past, once the card is slid fully into the socket, it no longer wants to jump upwards, and so that changes the way of thinking for the latching method.
Im actually thinking that for small and light boards (like LED’s or sensors, etc) would be fine with just the grip of the M.2 socket. Anything like a LoRa board with an antenna or such might need something to stop it coming out (in the direction of 5)
I think its time to get some of these add-on boards routed and ordered and see how it pans out.
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