Tin the contacts too, then solder on the wires!
Not too bad with the fine wires there for a rusty old solderer. These days I have to take my glasses off to solder... I did get some "bifocal" style glasses last year, but they turn out to be a bit of a bust really. Still have to take the glasses off for any close work. (Give it time and no doubt I'll have to put a different pair of glasses on lol.)
Bit of a bodge with the VBUS and GND wires on the other side. They're thicker wires. I'm lucky that they could be soldered to the other side of the board, and that the middle pins next to the VBUS contacts on that site are just floating contacts, AND that this is a very low power device so just tacking the wires onto one small point is totally fine.
Cut the VBUS cable a little short too, had a bit of a wire-stripping oopsie... so the cable is pulled to one side. I can live with that.
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