“Love these little beauties! Takes but a few seconds to hammer them in, and if you change your mind (or fit the wrong one - ahem) you just jiggle a plectrum around a bit and bingo! it's off again! Brilliant!
I'll deffo be using these things again, what's not to like.
Oh, parcel arrived super-quick btw and the free Pimoroni coaster was a nice touch too, thanks!”
“Was tired of soldering half a dozen of the headers onto Zero Ws, so got a couple of these.
On first installation broke one of the acrylic installation pieces because of hammering on it. :(
Now I have a couple of hammer headers, but no installation jig. And I swear I was gentle with the hammering!
Anyways, this is an amazing product if used carefully!”
“This is a must for anyone getting a Pi Zero, W. I purchased the rig and a Pi Zero W at the same time.
Get the rig and a Pi Zero and you are good to go with any project. Following the video and pausing it while I carried out each easy to follow step was perfect for putting this together.
I need need my first aid kit, the pins are sharp! However minor flesh wound aside, this does exactly what it needs todo. The rig of course can be re-used, which is great.”
“Like others here, I have minimal soldering skills (ruined a PiTFT with dodgy soldering, if that's any indication), so I jumped for joy at seeing these.
I initially balked a little at the price (nearly $10 AUD excluding shipping for three sheets of acrylic, some nylon screws and the male / female components -- it's more expensive than a Pi Zero), but it's worth it in the end and I promise I won't balk again.
I had to give them a fair whack with a rubber mallet to get them to move in, but when they eventually went in, I held my pHat up like a newborn lion and admired my handy work.”
“Oh man, I'm so bad at soldering! These a god/science send. They're not quite as stable as soldered headers, so repeated handling is a bit of a worry. But, for a largely static projects, these are a beaut!”
“Having a solder iron for electronics and having soldered a lot in former times I was curious how hammering a header into a Pi Zero W would work out.
Armed with the clear instructions and a hammer I quickly (but carefully) hammered the header correctly in place. This is simply too easy, everyone can do it, and my soldering iron now is furious!
Minor nitpit: the nylon bolts don't slip through the Pi Zero W mounting holes, so I needed to slightly turn and press them using a screwdriver to slip them in place. So setting up and removing the nylon bolts took more significantly more time than hammering the header into place.
This is really a very clever solution; at least for simple use cases soldering can be skipped. It will be interesting to see if in the long run this purely mechanical solution will work reliably, as I remember that fifteen years ago some big company was doing something similar with boards for industrial automation, but over time run into field problems.
Alas, five stars for a simple and elegant product!”
