Circuit Board Prototyping: Breadboards, Padboards, Stripboards and More

In today's video, we're going to discuss some of the available options for circuit board prototyping, from breadboards to stripboards and more. We'll also give a demonstration on how to solder circuits on padboard.

Prototyping boards are great for early stages of design, or even as a final board used in hobbyist DIY projects like DIY pedals and more!

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Breadboard:

Zipwire 10CM:

Zipwire 20CM:

Junior Genius Blinky Lights Kit:

Solderable breadboard:

Stripboard:

Padboard (General):

Padboard (1590B size):

Padboard (1590BB size):

Standoffs:

Caig Flux Wash:

[danieles]

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[publicspace]

Thank you for this! I hear you build pedals and I'm' looking forward to checking out the rest of your videos. Very helpful!

[AVogt-kskp]

thanks for the tips on soldering, using the component legs as a conductor track is great, thanks

[AirwolfBadarse]

6:03 Or you could use a wooden box since wood is an excellent insulator or a plastic casing.

[maxscherzer]

2:00 how to use a padboard. Extremely helpful

[jimglidewell]

Thanks - this was the clearest description of how to use padboards that I have seen. Stripboards don’t make much sense when I am using an Arduino Nano - most of the pins I typically don’t use...

[roberthatcher]

Really helpful for us newbies (even at my age), thanks!

[tonydanis]

Nicely done. Very precise unstructions.

[christopherdekonstrukt]

I'm glad I found this channel. I'm trying to design a smart PC monitoring system for liquid cooling and the challenge is the cooling system is remote from the PC case. Koolance in Washington state has used serial cables and PCI slot covers with female serial ports and paddle cards for temperature, fan and flow metering to their remote units, and also a means of starting the unit with the PC via a 12v Molex from the power supply. They also have higher power units where the 12v from the PC PSU simply turns on a transistor switch allowing the remote unit to turn on; it's plugged into the AC outlet. If course they're not going to give away their trade secrets by providing a schematic on how this is done. I worked at a switch mode power supply company in the 90s who after having a functioning prototype had the AutoCAD department design a circuit card for the strip board design and outsource a third party to print up the circuit cards. This would be bought in bulk and wouldn't be practical for an individual. So this channel will aid me greatly. Thank you.

[MineExploration]

Great video for beginners and perfectly shows how to use the boards that can be soldered for a more permanent design . Shaky hands, reduce alcohol/stress intake lol!

[marcelomarquesrangel]

Brief and intelligible to a beginner like me. Thanks!

[zetaconvex]

Very useful. I'm sure it will improve my soldering no end.

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[benchan]

Super helpful dude, I’m just starting my electronics journey and any bit of info helps! Thanks heaps

[thegenxgamerguy]

So clever, thank you for this nice video! I learned a lot about it and will go for soldering stuff in the future.

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[KaranPolobotu]

Thank you for this video! Is it possible to use the solderable breadboard for prototyping? Is this advisable or should I be using standard breadboards for prototyping only?

[BlackStarEOP]

That trick with the resistor lead bending over to form a connection was really nice! I was looking for videos on how to attach wire to my components (still haven't found anything :D) so I didn't even consider doing connections this way!

[waynegram]

What are the advantages of using the 2 Holes per pad compared to 1 hole per pad?

[roofoofighter]

On stripboards, what tool do you use to cut the traces? You skimmed over that.