And the award for the most retarded product of a decade goes to MikroElektronika

[GrandTheftAuto4life]

Pick your poison below:

(2 connections) https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/MikroElektronika/MIKROE-320/?qs=jBNCx3lXxWt3DwCwZGmuvw==
(8 connections) https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/mikroelektronika/MIKROE-319/1471-1177-ND/4495541

[hexreader]

These are being sold off cheap on the Mikroelektronika site, which suggests to me that they are about to end production.

This is NOT this year's product, but was developed many years ago. (EDIT - October 2008)

[rx8pilot]

Converting headers to screw terminal is not stupid.....I rigged up one of those just the other day....these things would have saved some effort.

Short and misplld from my mobile......

[wraper]

It is not retarded. Rather I would guess OP is narrow minded. Such thing may be quiet useful for say arduino tinkerers of someone who do some sort of prototype but not nearly limited to those.

[kPATm]

Very similar terminals already on the Ramps 1.4 kits for 3d printers

[EEVblog]

What's wrong with converting pin headers (or wires) to screw terminals?

[sanman]

it looks like the wire inputs are ACROSS the header pins? That would be a challenge 

[hexreader]

it looks like the wire inputs are ACROSS the header pins? That would be a challenge 

I have two of each and have found them very useful in the past. The "wire" inputs are NOT in the way of the header pins.

.... but I do realise that you are kidding 

[NiHaoMike]

I think the problem is that there are no screw holes to secure the terminal strip to the chassis.

[tpowell1830]

As the sales information says, these are for breadboards. Perfect for testing and prototyping without dealing with those tiny wires. Use regular wires on a breadboard, nice, can extend to other device with real wires. No more fiddling with bent wires.

[hermit]

For breadboards?  I have comparable components without the added real estate of the PCB that already plug directly into my breadboard at the cost of $0.10 US.  I can get a 170 point breadboard for another $1.29 if I'm running out of board space.  No mounting holes in the PCB version so that limits the one use I can think of for it. 

If I want to plug the terminal block into an Arduino and get it out of the way I can get a 40 pin angled header for $0.17.  I'm hard pressed to see a use case that would make me part with my money for the PCB mounted terminal block.  To me I can only see how it adds footprint space and makes things more cluttered.

[Cyberdragon]

You still have to solder these though, the pins aren't included. If I'm going to solder wires to screw terminals I would just dead-bug them and be done with it.

[langwadt]

What's wrong with converting pin headers (or wires) to screw terminals?

if only it had mounting holes it could useful

[wraper]

What's wrong with converting pin headers (or wires) to screw terminals?

if only it had mounting holes it could useful

Mounting holes are completely useless in most of it's use cases and would only obstruct other things, like connectors located on it's sides. And if you solder it on some header connector, there won't be place to attach it with screws to begin with.

[retrolefty]

The purpose of these 'transition connectors' is to speed up prototyping and quick testing of modules and subsystems. They would never in my opinion be used in 'production' designed systems. Lack of experience or knowledge here lead to the misguided "most retarded" statement.