Quick dual rail portable powered breadboard hack/bodge

[MrSlack]

Tonight's hack.

Needed a breadboard for doing some low frequency analogue audio stuff on. As I'm confined to the dining table to work and working out of boxes while my house is being ripped out, I knocked up a quick breadboard hack so I can play without too many trailing cables and keep all connections 100% static when I have to clear it.

Base is a Wisher WBU-502L. These are great for analogue and discrete stuff. The bracket is a chunk of alu stock recovered from a blown up Chinese switch mode bend with some mole grips, drilled and deburred, then "brushed" with a scourer. Holes at top are pot sized, middle ones are 3.5 jack/pushbutton sized and the bottom three are toggle switch sized. This was glued on the front with epoxy. Binding posts were not installed and two PP3s are cable tied on with a small power cable assembly bodged up to turn the +9v and -9v rails on and off.







Fugly but it works!

[ChristofferB]

Nice! I'm a great fan of having a connector/switch panel on my breadboards myself. I use some L bracket pre-drilled with M3 threaded holes to mount one corner of Dsub connectors and coax flange connectors. Might not be pretty but it's way prettier than the alternative!

--Christoffer

[MrSlack]

Good idea with the d-sub. Will bear that in mind in the future.