Breadboarding your circuits
- Why even do it?
- Time savings
- Quick check of your ideas
- Leave breadboard assembled for future pcbs
- Breadboards do not break physics – all the same rules apply
- What you put into it you get out
- Cleanliness matters
- Plan out your circuits
- You will likely find that you do not need extra jumpers if you plan the circuit
- Measure and bend leads – 0.1” pitch
- Use good components
- Use the bus strips for power and ground
- You can get away with high voltage if you plan for isolation
- Keep connections short. If the components can be the connection that is ideal
- Feedback and shorts – keep them short
- Know the limitations – breadboard what you need
- Breadboards may not be a one stop shop – use them to prove what you need to
Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!