On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:27:49 -0400, Phil Hobbs
wrote:

On 9/15/2014 8:57 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:50:46 +0000 (UTC), Don Kuenz
wrote:

In sci.electronics.design John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:03:36 +0000 (UTC), Don Kuenz
wrote:

Do you personally use a plastic solderless breadboard for your
prototypes?

http://www.ebay.com/sch/items/?_nkw=...ess+breadboard

NO!


If not, what do you use for your prototypes?

TIA.

Parts soldered to gold-plated FR4.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...s/Z338_PCB.JPG

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...er/Z356_Top.JP

That's so beautiful that it belongs in an art museum after you finish
your prototype! It seems that SMT makes solderless breadboard a thing of
the past.

This is my favorite, but I did it on non-gold-plated FR4, and it
quickly tarnished.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...rotos/LDP2.JPG

The copperclad breadboards allow really fast, high-current stuff. And
you can write on them, and keep them for future reference.

I find them (live bug!) easier to understand, too. The solderless
things confuse me, and dead bug makes me count backwards.

Like the flexible Werner von Braun, according to Tom Lehrer:

"You too can be a big hero / Just learn to count backwards to zero.
'Once the rockets go up / who cares where they come down?
That's not my department' / says Werner von Braun"

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Werner is said to be the origin of

"One experiment is worth a thousand expert opinions."

which is the email sigfile of a Fellow of United Technologies.


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