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Jumperless is a jumperless breadboard with multicolored LED visualization of signals in real-time. Sounds like magic? This beautifully executed entry to the 2023 Hackaday Prize by [Kevin Santo Cappuccio] uses …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Jumperless, The Jumperless Jumperboard
There’s a point in a component’s thermal regime that’s between normal operation and overloaded to the point of obvious failure. That’s a dangerous region, because the component isn’t quite hot …read more Continue reading Thermochromic Treatment Keeps Solderless Breadboards Smokeless
Over the years, and especially lately, we’ve seen tons of single-board retrocomputer builds. That’s fine with us — the more, the merrier. But they all start to run together a …read more Continue reading Squeezing a Minimalist 6502 Retrocomputer Onto a Single Breadboard
What’s more fun than playing video games? Designing your own video game hardware, of course! If you’ve followed these pages long enough you’ll have seen dozens of great examples of …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: The GameBug Turns Your Breadboard Into a Game Console
Breadboards make it simple to prototype and test circuits. If you use flexible wires with pins to make connections, it usually results in a rat’s nest. For many of us, using solid wire makes a rat’s nest, too. However, the very neat among us will cut solid wire to just …read more
Continue reading 3D Printed Breadboard Helper Makes Wiring Neater and Easier
Sometimes the most useful hacks are also the simplest ones. A case in point is the LED and resistor assembly that [Skippy] recently posted on his blog. The idea is to solder up some pre-made indicators with integrated resistors to save space on the breadboard when prototyping — instead of …read more
Continue reading Simple Trick for LEDs on Solderless Breadboards
Oh, there was a time when you could prototype just about everything on a breadboard. The CPU in your computer came in a DIP package, and there were no BGA packages. to be found anywhere. In the forty years since then, chips have gotten smaller, packages have gotten more cramped, and you can barely hand-solder the coolest chips anymore. No worries — companies are still spitting out dev boards with 0.1″ headers, but there’s a problem: they don’t fit on a solderless breadboard. They’re too wide. Our world is falling apart.
[Luc] had a problem when he was playing with …read more
Continue reading The Solution To Oversized Dev Boards: A Literal Hack