Bread boards aren't just for bread!

**mosfet** · 08-03-2012, 01:18 PM

I use bread boards. And no, not for bread, but elektroniks.
Who does know what they are?
Who owns some?
Who also uses them?
And for what circuits? (Examples, examples, examples!)

**Kisai** · 08-03-2012, 01:52 PM

I have six or seven around the place. They are used for making prototype circuits and are very useful for hobby electronics. Right now I have some old projects that I haven't dissassembled yet (I think one's just a BJT amplifier and the other I don't know). I also have a breadboard piggybacking onto another breadboard piggybacking onto a BASIC Stamp 2 circuit board that's on a mobile two wheel platform with a optoelectronic sensor in the front which will be a successful line-following robot if I just adjust a pot.

**mosfet** · 08-03-2012, 02:23 PM

My initial plan was to try out microcontrollers as I bought my first board. My next plan is to design self-reactive 'chirping' circuits which will have a mic, a loud beeper, a light sensor and probably a bright light emitter. The boards are going to communicate with one and another like birds or crickets. I wonder how I am going to program this, oh boy.

**Kisai** · 08-03-2012, 03:04 PM

That's pretty neat. Electronics is a very rewarding and versatile hobby and the experience carries over in case you become a technician or engineer.

**ummon** · 08-03-2012, 04:14 PM

"Breadboards", not "bread boards".

**mosfet** · 08-04-2012, 02:18 AM

No, bread boards. I like it that way!

**Heavy Fuel** · 08-04-2012, 08:21 AM

They are still called breadboards today, because that's what they were originally. Way back when, techs used to prototype vacuum tube circuits on a wooden breadboard, using small nails as binding points, and wrapping wires around them to complete the connection. The name stuck, and refers now to the plastic dual inline prototype boards.

I still use my first breadboard, that my parents gave to me for a birthday present about 40 years ago.

**JackCY** · 08-04-2012, 12:46 PM

Breadboard, as ummon said, learn to spell.

Have one small one, pretty useless, for low current electronics fine just to try stuff or power few LEDs for fun, otherwise useless. I don't like the connection on the boards, it's too freakin' weak and some things easily fall out, short pins etc. Thick stuff you won't put in it on the other hand at all. Had a display on it once connected via parallel port or a steering wheel via game port.

I think perfboard is more useful but as I do not build things anymore I never used one. Always had a board made from my design then drilled it and soldered.

I'm more looking forward to try Arduino and other hobby microcontrollers.
Build an LED cube etc. hook it up to a computer and play music visually on it as a spectrograph and other effects.

**mosfet** · 08-04-2012, 01:09 PM

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	Breadboard, as ummon said, learn to spell.

Like ummon didn't get it you didn't get it either.

I agree, the BREADBOARDS are not for everything. But they are fine for trying components without soldering. For long term installments they're no so fine, because, as you said the components may fall out, a short may accidentally destroy something or what ever.

**Ytterbium** · 08-06-2012, 10:45 AM

Yes I've a few of them. Currently occupied by two microcomputer projects.

**Async** · 08-13-2012, 12:27 PM

I used it to test out some ideas for amp

08-03-2012, 01:18 PM	#1
mosfet Member [08%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 344	I use bread boards. And no, not for bread, but elektroniks. Who does know what they are? Who owns some? Who also uses them? And for what circuits? (Examples, examples, examples!)
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08-03-2012, 01:52 PM	#2
Kisai Core Member [353%] MBTI: XXXX Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 14,137	I have six or seven around the place. They are used for making prototype circuits and are very useful for hobby electronics. Right now I have some old projects that I haven't dissassembled yet (I think one's just a BJT amplifier and the other I don't know). I also have a breadboard piggybacking onto another breadboard piggybacking onto a BASIC Stamp 2 circuit board that's on a mobile two wheel platform with a optoelectronic sensor in the front which will be a successful line-following robot if I just adjust a pot.
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08-03-2012, 02:23 PM	#3
mosfet Member [08%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 344	My initial plan was to try out microcontrollers as I bought my first board. My next plan is to design self-reactive 'chirping' circuits which will have a mic, a loud beeper, a light sensor and probably a bright light emitter. The boards are going to communicate with one and another like birds or crickets. I wonder how I am going to program this, oh boy.
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08-03-2012, 03:04 PM	#4
Kisai Core Member [353%] MBTI: XXXX Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 14,137	That's pretty neat. Electronics is a very rewarding and versatile hobby and the experience carries over in case you become a technician or engineer.
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08-03-2012, 04:14 PM	#5
ummon Veteran Member [59%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 2,387	"Breadboards", not "bread boards".
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08-04-2012, 02:18 AM	#6
mosfet Member [08%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 344	No, bread boards. I like it that way!
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08-04-2012, 08:21 AM	#7
Heavy Fuel Member [06%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 248	They are still called breadboards today, because that's what they were originally. Way back when, techs used to prototype vacuum tube circuits on a wooden breadboard, using small nails as binding points, and wrapping wires around them to complete the connection. The name stuck, and refers now to the plastic dual inline prototype boards. I still use my first breadboard, that my parents gave to me for a birthday present about 40 years ago.
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08-04-2012, 12:46 PM	#8
JackCY Core Member [107%] MBTI: INTj Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 4,310	Breadboard, as ummon said, learn to spell. Have one small one, pretty useless, for low current electronics fine just to try stuff or power few LEDs for fun, otherwise useless. I don't like the connection on the boards, it's too freakin' weak and some things easily fall out, short pins etc. Thick stuff you won't put in it on the other hand at all. Had a display on it once connected via parallel port or a steering wheel via game port. I think perfboard is more useful but as I do not build things anymore I never used one. Always had a board made from my design then drilled it and soldered. I'm more looking forward to try Arduino and other hobby microcontrollers. Build an LED cube etc. hook it up to a computer and play music visually on it as a spectrograph and other effects.
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08-06-2012, 10:45 AM	#10
Ytterbium Veteran Member [73%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2,926	Yes I've a few of them. Currently occupied by two microcomputer projects.
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08-13-2012, 12:27 PM	#11
Async Member [28%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1,140	I used it to test out some ideas for amp
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