Eventually you pull components for this project or that, or you end up taking the whole things apart and putting the parts back in your bins. In the end, most projects die on a breadboard after they are completed. But, I will argue that in the same amount of time it takes you to lay out and solder together a perf board, you cold have made a PCB! Not only will it be more reliable and look cleaner, but odds are you can shrink your project’s footprint down as well. Perf board is a great way to turn a breadboard project into something you can move around a little more securely. And don’t get me started on those project boxes right now.Īnother option is to use perf board. That works, but it too has its limitations.
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And by creative, I mean a lot of us learned to use hot glue to shove everything into a box, and keep it secure.
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Portability (and stability) are issues, as is any sort of permanence. When your project lives on a breadboard, there’s not much you can do with it after the project is completed. With that said, overwhelmingly the only problem I had with any of my projects was purely logistical. Needless to say, Arduino and I have a history together. And in that time, I have made lots of cool projects with them: GPS dog collars, bike computers, every sensor imaginable, radios, along with a host of others. I’ve been playing around with Arduino since Tom Igoe released his ‘ Making Things Talk’ book through O’Reilly media in 2007. In the time since the initial release, I’ve talked to a lot of people about Copper, and the overwhelming response from the non-engineer crowd is simply: “Cool, but why would I make a PCB?”. Copper is a web app that lets you easily create PCBs on your home CNC machine by simply dragging and dropping Gerber files. We released Carbide Copper in early April.