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
