My first post - and breadboard build!

[Luteman]

Greetings venerable forumites!

This is an awsome site - Thanks Aron! I've been lurking here for years and found it a great resource - so much time wasted reading this when I should have been working . . .
Anyhow, I've been messing with various electrical and electronic stuff for as long as I can remember and decided to finally get serious about making pedals.
I tend to approach things in an methodical fashion (did someone say anal . . .?) so I thought the first thing I should do is build a breadboard.
I am so happy with the result I thought I would share it with the world.

Inspired by the 'Beavis Board' I set about building mine. Careful not to infringe Dano's intellectual property, however, mine doesn't use a Hunk o' Wood^TM - rather a Slab o' MDF^TM 

I did however use the breakout box idea - mine has a bypass switch, mono input jack, stereo output jack and a generic DPDT switch. All ins and outs (including the 6 connectors on the DPDT) are brought out to a cheapo strip connector. I used a battery box rather than a DC power jack - this may change in the future.
I have used three breadboards - two of which I bought from eBay for a couple of pounds each and one of which I already had (the blue one in the picture). The blue one was supplied with a vertical panel for pots, additional switches, etc. - that's really why I used it.
I have left some space on the board for additional items such as test lead sockets, speaker connections or a test rig like R.G.'s setup for gain-selecting FF transistors.

All told, this has cost me about £10 to build (did I mention I was a cheapskate?) and I am looking forward to trying out some of the many circuits presented here.

Here are some photos if anyone's interested . . .

The whole thing . . .



Close up of the breakout connections . . .



Ins and outs . . .

[Auke Haarsma]

Welcome!

The breadboard is looking cool!

[Luteman]

Thanks Auke - I appreciate that. Just need to start using it now . . .

[petemoore]

  Fine job, neat, labeled, connector'ed..should be nice !
 

[8mileshigh]

This is immaculate compared to my breadboard setup.  NICE !!!

[mnordbye]

Welcome to the board!

Breadboards are so cool when setting them up properly, like you have. It just makes it much more easier. Great job!

Magnus Nordbye

[DougH]

Wow, nice!

One of these days I've got to do that. Right now I have 2 breadboards with rats nests on them...