These little black dip switches from Tayda are nice for prototyping.

[JenniferG]

I just received my Tayda order and these little IC shaped dip switch clusters are nice.  They have normal IC pins, which are long and secure well into the breadboard unlike the red ones.   They are also much smaller, but with same footprint.

Great for prototyping where you perhaps need several low current toggle switches but are tight on space.

35 cents a piece from Tayda :
https://www.taydaelectronics.com/black-dip-switch-4-positions-gold-plated-contacts-top-actuated.html
(EDIT: looks like they just went out of stock on the 4 x DIP switch cluster.. they have 3 and 5 clusters in stock though.)

Here's a photo I just snapped of it in my breadboard.

[ledtester]

Years ago I regularly shopped Tayda for stuff but lately I find myself browsing aliexpress more and more. I should check them out again and see what they got.

Also, it appears that you have 3D-printed some sort of "carrier board" for your stripboard and atmega2560 module. Is it anything like this:

https://www.amazon.com/GeeekPi-Raspberry-Holder-Breadboard-Arduino/dp/B07WFMV8FJ/

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[JenniferG]

Years ago I regularly shopped Tayda for stuff but lately I find myself browsing aliexpress more and more. I should check them out again and see what they got.

Also, it appears that you have 3D-printed some sort of "carrier board" for your stripboard and atmega2560 module. Is it anything like this:

https://www.amazon.com/GeeekPi-Raspberry-Holder-Breadboard-Arduino/dp/B07WFMV8FJ/

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Yeah Tayda is great for a lot of things. I really like their Royal Ohm resistors as the leads are nice and thick, great for breadboarding.

I'm using this, which I 3D printed at home: 
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:957376

I really like it and made a little system for it I call BLOCKS:  https://www.modwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=267893

[mikerj]

I'm using this, which I 3D printed at home: 
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:957376

That's a genuinely neat idea, I'm going to print one out for myself.  I'm often struggling with a rats nest of eval boards and small stripboard hacks when doing early development at work.