[Coco] How many still breadboard?

Dave Philipsen dave at davebiz.com
Tue Apr 7 23:22:19 EDT 2020


I was never a big fan of breadboarding. For me, wirewrapping is more reliable and even easier. Lately, with the advent of cheap prototyping houses, a lot of times I put the design directly to pcb. 

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> On Apr 7, 2020, at 7:19 PM, James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> How many electronics folk in this group still used breadboards? 
> 
> I found this video of Ben Eater fascinating on the subject:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbAafKLqC8
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> He includes some good electricity / electronics theory in there too.
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> Last year I spent a good amount time learning and bread-boarding some circuits with mixed (sometimes frustrating) results – but had some successes. I am wondering if I’ve been using the cheap breadboards that are no good -- most likely yes!.   
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> I am just curious; do you bypass bread-boarding altogether or go directly to PCB and troubleshoot multiple versions of that? 
> 
> -jr
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