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dfe on July 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)

I'm a bit younger and I always called 0.1" spacing headers "Berg connectors" until the last couple of years when everyone started calling them DuPont.

dotancohen on July 26, 2025 [–]

I don't know which is the horse and which is the cart, but AliExpress sells them as DuPont and that's how everybody in the Arduino scene refers to them.

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