It boggles my mind that it's possible to order a completely custom little circuit board to be made and posted to you from overseas for less than the cost of a bag of chips.
This is an almost functional breakout board for a little 4-way-with-middle-button thing with a mildly cursed footprint. I got the important pin spacing right, but left them 0.1" too wide; having tested V1 here, V2 will arrive in a few weeks, which I will then also validate, and release as another #SimpleBreakouts project.
This is all that's required to use this thing - five digital pins in INPUT_PULLUP mode, and another line to ground. It's one of those components that would be a great #Arduino starter project part, if only there was a goddamn usable breakout board for it.
And soon enough, there will be.
And done. Do you want a simple breakout board for #Adafruit's ADA504 5-way navigation switch (it clicks in four directions, and straight down in the middle)? You can download the Gerber files for one here, and get a few of them made for yourself at Oshpark, JLCPCB etc for a few bucks: https://github.com/timixretroplays/simple-breakouts/tree/main
Do you want one and happen to be in Australia? DM me and I'll post you one of mine.
Tim 🎮