What PCB Connector options are available to me?

Housing wires allow for discrete wires to be bundled into a single connector that is then connected into a receptacle. As stated, they’re any connector that you can shove a wire into and then that connector plugs into a header.

Housing wires allow for discrete wires to be bundled into a single connector that is then connected into a receptacle. As stated, they’re any connector that you can shove a wire into and then that connector plugs into a header.

Connecting two circuit boards together, particularly mother and daughter board connections, are made easy using gold fingers and card edge connectors. Basically, this will look like a PCI express port. Any variability will likely be in height, length, color, etc.

Flat flexible connectors and flexible printed circuit board connectors are ideal for transferring multiple low-voltage signals but require specialized connectors to access the thin encapsulated wires.

Widely varied in size, shape, and appearance, these headers and receptacles mount firmly onto a PCB and connect to nearly any form of wire or connector imaginable. This is the largest family and thus quite varied.

A robust, powerful way to create a bus of parallel connection, backplane connectors create a high-bandwidth connection between multiple daughterboards. Backplanes are basically generic motherboards without specific CPU slots. They can vary in their available connections but anything motherboard-esque is probably fine.