> **Source:** Core Electronics is an Australian maker-electronics retailer and manufacturer based in Newcastle, NSW, run by a team of makers and educators. We design and manufacture our own product lines (PiicoDev, CE originals) and are official retailers for iconic maker and industrial brands including Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Adafruit, SparkFun and DFRobot. Orders ship Australia-wide from our Newcastle warehouse. Prices are in AUD and include GST. Pricing, stock and dispatch on this page are generated from the store's live catalog. Full machine-readable index: https://core-electronics.com.au/llms.txt

# USB to microUSB OTG Converter Shim

**Type:** Product page · **SKU:** ADP006 · **Brand:** [Pimoroni](https://core-electronics.com.au/brands/pimoroni-australia) · **GTIN:** 704256798369
**Page:** https://core-electronics.com.au/usb-to-microusb-otg-converter-shim.html ([markdown](https://core-electronics.com.au/usb-to-microusb-otg-converter-shim.html.md))

This is the kind of seat-of-the-pants engineering genius that you only find in hackspaces, garden sheds or Shenzhen.

## Pricing

- **Price:** $4.90 (inc GST) — $4.45 AUD, exc GST
- **Quantity discounts:** 10+ $4.27 (exc GST) · 25+ $4.15 (exc GST)

## Availability & dispatch

- Out of stock — the product page offers email notification when it returns.

## How to buy

- **Build a cart:** compose `https://core-electronics.com.au/cart/link?items=ADP006:1` (comma-separated SKU:qty pairs) and share the link. Opening it shows a confirmation page with live pricing and stock before anything is added to the cart.
- **Verify the cart first:** fetch `https://core-electronics.com.au/cart/link/ADP006:1.md` for live line prices (inc & exc GST, quantity discounts applied), stock and dispatch estimates, and totals. Append `/to/{AU-postcode}` (or `/to/{country-code}:{postcode}`) before `.md` for delivery options and prices to that destination. Unknown, retired, or out-of-stock SKUs are flagged. (Query form `cart/link.md?items=...` also works but some robots parsers refuse query strings here.)
- **Checkout** is completed on-site and includes a captcha at the payment step. Share the cart link; checkout takes it from there.
- **Search the catalogue:** `https://core-electronics.com.au/search/{query}.md` (URL-encode the query; pages 2-3 at `search/{query}/{page}.md`; `search.md?q=` also works)
- **Payment methods, purchase orders, policies and contact details:** https://core-electronics.com.au/llms.txt
## Description

This is the kind of seat-of-the-pants engineering genius that you only find in hackspaces, garden sheds or Shenzhen.

It's not for the faint-of-heart, it's not particularly spec-friendly, but it is useful and cool for Pi Zero hackers!

This tiny little shim pushes inside a full-sized USB connector and transforms it into a USB-On-The-Go compatible microUSB connector.

It's perfect for plugging a single USB peripheral into the Pi Zero with the minimum amount of spaghetti wiring.

**Note:** Plug into your USB device first, making sure the four contacts are facing in towards the contacts inside the USB connector! **It's on you** if you put it in the wrong way and things go FZZZZT! :D

**Warning:** You should also never plug this into a USB-A receptacle 'female' port, only a USB plug 'male' style device. So don't go plugging the big end into your Pi 3's ports :-)

## Images

- [Product image 1](https://core-electronics.com.au/media/catalog/product/i/m/image_28.jpg)