[Coco] How many still breadboard?

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 07 April 2020 20:18:09 James Ross wrote:

> How many electronics folk in this group still used breadboards?
>
> I found this video of Ben Eater fascinating on the subject:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbAafKLqC8
>
> He includes some good electricity / electronics theory in there too.
>
> 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!.
>
> I am just curious; do you bypass bread-boarding altogether or go
> directly to PCB and troubleshoot multiple versions of that?
>
> -jr
Poor connections on breadboarded stuff drove me to wire wraping 40 years 
ago. Now its almost a forgotten art and I've not used it in years. 
Making my pcb's on a milling machine gets the job done.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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