EZ-Solder Machine Sockets and Headers

Nice, but fragile.

These are a nice bit of kit, but they are fragile. If you desocket and resocket them a couple times, unless you're very careful, you'll break a pin, and replacing a single broken pin is a massive pain. Also, if you want to use the 3 GPIO pins in the middle of the nice!nano you have to order a whole 'nother set of these. All that being said, I haven't tried a nice!nano with another kind of socket, so this may just be a case of "they all do that, ma'am". Finally, support from these folks on any of their parts is great. Highly recommend.

great height, super low durability

Can you source the same basic height except with square pegs? I've found these round pegs are extremely flimsy. I'm experimenting a lot with the design and a couple pins break 3 out of 5 times hotswapping the microcontroller.

Solderless is a good concept to test, but this is the way to go. Easy to solder - took me 5 minutes to solder two nice nano, abd two nice views.