[SOLVED] bridging two sides of the same PCB

[RotateAt60Mph]

I could use a little layout advice. I'm developing a custom LED display PCB using Fritzing. Lots of LED's with resistors, etc. The board will eventually be mounted in a case with a light-diffusing layer over the diodes themselves.

A separate PCB, which drives the board, provides two 10-pin ribbon cables to the display board above. My problem is that I need to mount the 2 10-pin headers on the bottom 'side' on the PCB (with the LED's being on the 'top' side) because the headers and ribbon cables would conflict with the case.

What's the best practice for bridging one side of the board with the other? Would it be acceptable to just solder (on both PCB sides) small pieces of wire through the PCB?

 

[KD494]

Did you also make the driver PCB? Usually when designing a stack of boards like I believe you're describing you use something like a mezzanine connector. Male on one board female on the other.

If you don't have any control over the driver PCB do you have space for right angle headers?

Edit: After reading your question again I think I misunderstood, sounds like you need to use vias. Plated holes that go through the PCB to pass signals to different layers.

 

[d123]

If it's just for a hobby, home-use circuit it shouldn't matter.

 

[RotateAt60Mph]

Did you also make the driver PCB? Usually when designing a stack of boards like I believe you're describing you use something like a mezzanine connector. Male on one board female on the other.

If you don't have any control over the driver PCB do you have space for right angle headers?

Edit: After reading your question again I think I misunderstood, sounds like you need to use vias. Plated holes that go through the PCB to pass signals to different layers.

'Vias' - that sounds like what I was thinking. Essentially a hole straight-thru with plates on both sides of the board that bridges the top side and the bottom side. Thanks for the reply all!