We loved the low price of the LaunchPad, but hate the male headers and TI's recent price increase. Additionally, moving a LaunchPad between breadboard projects is tedious and error prone; nobody wants to plug and unplug wires all the time. The SwitchPad relieves all these pains:

• Gender changes: Interface between the LaunchPad and your breadboard using NORMAL wires!
• Remembers your wires: Wiring to the SwitchPad creates a convenient wiring harness for your project. Hooking up Your breadboard project becomes as easy as a BoosterPack.e
• Saves money: No need to buy multiple LaunchPads for working on multiple projects. Just wire to multiple SwitchPads and easily plug and unplug your LaunchPad among them.
• Maintains jumper settings: The jumpers go on the SwitchPad. No messing with jumpers when jumping between multiple projects!

We have for sale the SwitchPad DIY kit, which includes:

• 1 snap apart SwitchPad PCB
• 1 2x3 stacking female headers
• 2 2x2 stacking female headers
• 4 1x10 female headers

The kit is completely through hole and easy to solder; just follow these instructions here.

ERRATA:

• 1.0: Upper set of 5x2 pins are 0.05" too close to the 1x10 row. Workaround: Bend 2x3 and 2x2 pins slightly to compensate for the distance.