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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: romovs on July 13, 2013, 07:32:39 am
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Up until recently I was prototyping most of my thru-hole projects using prototype panels and completely ignored breadboards.
Not that I have anything in particular against them.., it's just this breaboard thing completely skipped over me for some reason.
So I recovered one from the depths of my junk box and gave it a try.
Now I have mixed fillings about this.
On one hand it doesn't require soldering, so it's easier to replace components (let's ignore the stuff requiring adapters for now).
On other, the process of transferring circuit/layout to a breadboard is somewhat cumbersome in my opinion, as it's usually ends up looking dissimilar to the initial board layout. At least twice now I spent time hunting for a wrong connection just because a component was mirrored or placed in different direction due to board constrains.
As as remedy, I was thinking it could be nice to have a software which can produce a compatible breadboard layout from supplied schematic + pcb layout.
Since this seems like a rather involved project, and I am, well... lazy, it might never come to fruition.
But... what do you fellas think? Is this something that might be useful or maybe I am just overcomplicating things :-//?
And also what's you preferred way of protyping with breadboard, schematics -> breadboard or pcb layout -> breadboard?
p.s. i am referring to single layer layouts only.
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As as remedy, I was thinking it could be nice to have a software which can produce a compatible breadboard layout from supplied schematic + pcb layout.
Be sure to have a look at Fritzing (http://www.fritzing.org/)1 before you go too far down the path there, not "autorouted" like you are talking about, but it does allow you to draw a schematic (or directly layout a pcb) and then transfer that to breadboard, or vice-versa, so it could perhaps provide a base to work from or some ideas at least.
1 Before we get various posters with guffaws of laughter, Fritzing is an educational tool, not a professional one, do not compare it to your favourite design tool... it's not what it is trying to be.
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LOoks like an interesting project.
Thanks sleemanj.