In the early days of radio, amateurs nailed bare copper wires or terminal strips to a wooden board (often literally a bread
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A modern solderless breadboard socket consists of a perforated block of plastic with numerous tin plated phosphor bronze or nickel silver alloy spring clips under the perforations. The clips are often called tie points or co… See more

A common use in the system on a chip (SoC) era is to obtain an microcontroller (MCU) on a pre-assembled printed circuit board (PCB) which exposes an array of input/output (IO) pins in a header suitable to plug into a … See more

Due to relatively large parasitic capacitance compared to a properly laid out PCB (approx 2 pF between adjacent contact columns ), high inductance of some connections and a relatively high and not very reprod… See more

Alternative methods to create prototypes are point-to-point construction (reminiscent of the original wooden breadboards), wire wrap, wiring pencil, and boards like the stripboard. Complicated systems, such as modern co… See more

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