Arduino vs. Wires! And the winner is?

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[AROAH]

What a world where we can just go “fuck breadboards I’m going to design and order my own custom PCB”

[ClokworkGremlin]

Let's just unnecessarily add $5 and 2 weeks to our project and skip the prototype phase entirely. And that's assuming you did the board layout right and didn't have to change anything.

[dooterino]

I mean, a breadboard is explicitly for prototyping. Just get a new breadboard if the spring contacts have worn out.

[laustinspeiss]

This completely ignores that 70% of arduino fiddlers that have zero idea of power supplies, drivers or circuit design. It’s a great goal, but at LEAST 6-12 months away for a dedicated newbie.

[epicfail]

can't believe you soldered a crimp terminal.

[vikhneshar]

That was sooo easy

Learning the software
Designing the PCB
Ordering it
Waiting days for it to arrive
Praying for everything went well
Just to figure out you ordered the wrong colour for the PCB

Than using a few cables & a breadboard to test the circuit

[foogod]

You forgot the part where you realize you hadn't considered something important about the circuit design, so you need to redo the whole thing, re-layout a new board, spend more money and wait another couple of weeks to get a new one made, desolder everything from the old one, resolder everything onto the new one, then discover you still screwed up the board design somewhere and so you give up and cut a bunch of traces and solder bodge wires across things just to get it to turn on correctly.

All because your short temper prevented you from properly prototyping your design on a breadboard and making sure it worked right to begin with like normal, stable people do...

[paulhancock]

Think you're missing the point entirely about the breadboard. You use the breadboard to develop the circuit to its final design, then transfer that to a proper circuit board

[godofhack]

I got another idea: avoid dupont jumper wires as much as possible. This little trick has saved me a ton of headaches

[seabeepirate]

Nice work! The next level is to turn the Arduino and the shield into a single pcb and either remove or pin out the unnecessary components.

[erroraccount]

You still need to prototype in that breadboard

[lozockhd]

What if you want to add something or made a mistake there? You know that the wires are just for prototyping.

[lewisanesa]

Once you're on this way, let's save some money and replace arduino by a 16F pic chip...

[jaromy]

I would've used a prototype shield. It saves time, is cheaper and allows for future upgrades.

Unless you need many of course, then this is the way.

[Andrew-dpkf]

Totally agree, for one I could never get any breadboard stuff to work properly, and for another JLC pcb costs are so cheap these days I don’t see the point.

I would also say your tip about breaking out and prototyping parts of your design on cheap pcbs rather than the final version was very helpful.

[adamjensen]

You must have a video of how you made that shield and ordered it.

[sleepwalkerbg]

Yes, i can't wait ... WAIT ... I literally can't wait for weeks to try my project 😂😂😂😂

[randomexcessmemories]

I've never seen a circuit board be used as a heatsink before. Pretty neat!

[jerrykrovichdrvlof]

Both options are good if correctly used.
Wires and proofboards are perfect for prototypes in their first steps. It allows fast and easy changes without too much headaches
Printed PCB's are perfect for a final product when the prototype already works fine and you're done doing changes. It allows an elegant and professional looking final product of a project plus a long lasting solution

In a nutshell, both are good if used correctly at the adecuated stage

[MaacAbra]

What a tip on stripping the wire with SAK! 😮😊