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PixieDust:
Sorry for posting in an old thread, I think the topic is still pertinent. I was wondering how you prototype on breadboards if TH is dead? How do you prototype with TH?
Algoma:
Various surface Mount adapter boards are very common and easy to find.  Simply surface mount your IC one one side and install the through hole pin headers.

They come in all shapes and sizes for almost every format.
PixieDust:
But what about all the other components like resistors, diodes etc? And besides, isn't part of the point of prototyping on a breadboard to test whether the actual component will be suitable? If you use different SMT components on the "good copy" from the TH components on the breadboard, you might run into issues? No? Seems this way you're prototyping twice!
eti:
If a question is asked, the asker is unsure.

 Since the asker is unsure, let me ask you this - have you considered how many devices are used by the military, of which GIGANTIC numbers are deployed, which are so vastly expensive that they’re expected to last (and be repairable) for decades - think that they need to be serviced, and the components needs to be VERY firmly attached, but which also need to be serviced in locations that can’t always be lifted out like an operating theatre (IE, on the battleground) and how many are legacy industrial devices which continue in manufacture as nothing “better” is needed, and their systems simply depend on things (“if it ain’t broke, don’t ‘fix’ it”)

I don’t see it. What I do see is many other forums having the same type of thread, over ten years ago, and yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ here we still are, and here through hole still is, still existing and doing very well thank you.

Not every single electronic device is a cheap piece of eBay tat that can be thrown away after a year.

Look at this:

Defence contracts are funded by bottomless pockets, and if they say THT stays, nothing else matters - that’s the final word on it, and since lots of our technology descends from military research… well… that’s all there is to it.
I wanted a rude username:

--- Quote from: PixieDust on December 28, 2021, 02:50:24 am ---But what about all the other components like resistors, diodes etc?

--- End quote ---

My personal workflow is to only breadboard discrete subassemblies.

E.g. a BH1620 on an adaptor plate, along with a few passives, to see how it works and to fine-tune the values of those passives, and maybe test a MOSFET or microcontroller pin to turn the whole lot off. Such subassemblies are translated into SMT on a first revision PCB, which has extra test points, solder bridges, 0 Ohm resistors, etc.

More complex sensors, drivers, etc. usually come on breakout boards and don't need to be breadboarded, just connected to the microcontroller dev board with Dupont cables.

You can't easily breadboard the really fast stuff anyway because of reflections, etc.
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