Thanks to P. Marossy, R.G. And Alex for protoboard ideas. (Your pictures ?)

[frequencycentral]

I have two of those stand up things that wires are inserted into on my breadboard, but I don't get how to use them. What do i do with them/what are they best used for?? Thanks.

Mine are +v, ground, input and output. Also handy for hooking croc clips onto. Or resting a DDM ground to while testing voltages.

My breadboard looks really small. I don't know how I manage. I need to seriously upgrade!

[bean]

What's the angled bracket on the right hand side of the board for?

I was going to mount a Ruby in a coffee can there, but never got around to it.

[solderman]

I need to use my prototyping board more. 

Well it's normal in that case :
"Hi. My Name is Paul. I am a recovered stompboxaholic."

LOL. Tnx for the new word . Mind if i tweak it to Stompoholic 

Symptoms:
Compulsive attraction to obsolete electronic components.
Obsessive need to read and act upon schematics referring to influencing of audiobly experience equipment.
Pathological need to develop pedriasticly maneuvered electronic circuts.   

Diagnose:
Stompoholic

//Solderman

[JFX09]

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How do you edit posts?

[Thomeeque]

repost for Thomeeque

Thanks, beautiful one!! 

How do you edit posts?

You can edit only fresh posts, like up to 15 minutes after post or something like that (I'm not sure if it's only time limited or there are other rules involved)

[JFX09]

Thanks! figured if i'm going to sweat over it, might as well be pretty

[waky]

not mine, but fits the thread.

http://www.killertone.com/buynow.html

[iaresee]

I have two of those stand up things that wires are inserted into on my breadboard, but I don't get how to use them. What do i do with them/what are they best used for?? Thanks.

I use mine much like frankp said: my scope has banana probe ends that plug right into the banana socket. Particularly handy for setting common ground. I'll sometimes probe with a piece of wire too. And for longer probing sessions it's a little more durable than a clipped on probe.

[frequencycentral]

My breadboard looks really small. I don't know how I manage. I need to seriously upgrade!

Yay, this thread popping up again just made me go out and quadruple the size of my breadboarding facility. Now I can spread out a little. I'll post pics once I finalise it's layout. I still have to figure out the best way to mount pots. There are lots of good ideas on this thread.

[salocin]

Faux wood. I love it!

[davent]

Been collecting ideas for putting together a tube breadboard. So far...

http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/funwithtubes/New_Tube_BB.html
http://www.tubelab.com/The_Tubelab.htm
http://home.polstra.com/amps/breadboard/

dave

[frank_p]

This topic is getting really serious...

[bobp1339]

Well, nothing too fancy at all, but it seems everytime I think about buying new breadboard, I have just spent money on switches, pots and enclosures.... 




BobP

[Joe Stone]

Loved this idea and finally built one of these puppies... my brother was on a "newly-aquired-camera/must-video-record-everything" spree. haha...

arbiter fuzz face

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PczY-g5cMCI

[Paul Marossy]

About 6 months ago I was hired to reverse engineer a six layered PCB circuit and then breadboard it, which required me to build a bigger & badder breadboard which is about 9"x8". The cool thing is that all these breadboards were given to me around 2002, I didn't have to pay a penny for them. 

[earthtonesaudio]

It's alive!!!!   

[bean]

About 6 months ago I was hired to reverse engineer a six layered PCB circuit and then breadboard it, which required me to build a bigger & badder breadboard which is about 9"x8". The cool thing is that all these breadboards were given to me around 2002, I didn't have to pay a penny for them. 

Holy mother of god, how do you trace six layers? I would sooner swallow a bottle of iodine.

Anyway, excellent proto board.

[Paul Marossy]

Holy mother of god, how do you trace six layers? I would sooner swallow a bottle of iodine.

Anyway, excellent proto board.

I had some help, a software file that showed each layer. Even with that, it was making me crazy. It took me about eight hours to come up with a schematic, and then a few more hours to breadboard it to verify if schematic was correct. I got 99% of right on the first try. It was a pain in the rear, though.

The only thing I can compare it to was as-builting some HVAC ducts installed in an existing 18,000 sq ft house I was supposed to draw up plans for. I was literally out there for days trying to figure out where all these ducts went from fifteen different AC units. It was like trying to see where the beginning and end of each noodle was in a bowl of spaghetti without moving anything. At least figuring out this PCB wasn't a week long effort at the jobsite like that was.

[frank_p]

Bump.

Very nice Jon!

Well here's my contribution to moving this thread closure to dooms day. I've been chasing wires, pots and switches too long. I decided to permanently install my breadboard in a small rig that has power and places for pots and switches. I made the "pot holders" so that I can slip them the pots into place and tighten the nut without having to remove the nut and washer. I mounted a ground bus that runs along two sides. The power supply jack automatically disengages the battery as in a pedal. There's a separate on/off switch and LED power indicator. I mounted a DPDT switch that I can attach to with alligator clips. I still want to install a fuse holder to protect against shorts.

The wood work is pretty sloppy, but the utility is good. I started off with two slide switches I had laying around for the power and spare switch. I decided to hot glue them in place since I didn't have any teensy screws. I learned that hot glue and slide switches are a bad combination. I didn't notice the glue going inside the switches and they ended up being glued into one position. I had to use my heat gun to unglue them from the wood and chunk them.   

Here're some photos:

[Jdansti]

Gee, after going to the beginning of this thread and looking at all of the cool proto boards, I feel like a guy who showed up at the Waldorf with all of his clothes in a Wal Mart bag.     No problem.  As Stuart Smalley says, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog-gonnit, people like me..."