Create A Simple Launchpad Shield

[K]enneth came up with an amazingly simple idea for creating your own Launchpad Shield – using nothing but a perfboard and a strip of female headers. No more worrying about header spacing.

He says

This is why Texas Instruments didn’t copy Arduino’s idiotic header spacing scheme.  That is a random chunk of perf board, with some wire-wrap female header soldered 1.8″ apart.  No bending leads, no etching my own perf board, nothing.  It’s just friggin easy.

You can look up his writeup here.