Soldering In Plain Headers; Prepare The Header Strip - Adafruit Feather HUZZAH ESP8266 Manual

Finally, there's the "Stacking Header"
option. This one is sort of the best-of-
both-worlds. You get the ability to plug
into a solderless breadboard and plug a
featherwing on top. But its a little bulky

Soldering in Plain Headers

Prepare the header strip:

Cut the strip to length if necessary. It will
be easier to solder if you insert it into a
breadboard - long pins down
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