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C.When building electronics project for permanent use - i.e. after testing on a solderless breadboard - you normally go to a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/soldered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soldered</a> perforated board of some type as a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/prototype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prototype</a>, or even for very-low-volume production.There are different types of boards. I dislike "matrix" boards, which are just isolated pads on a grid, i.e. there are no connections between any of them. Some people swear by these; I swear at them.I prefer protoboards that have multiple holes per pad (so you can connect multiple component leads without having to add an explicit wire jumper). If they've also got <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/busses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#busses</a> - sets of pads that run the whole length or width of the board - so much the better!Some are <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crap</a>: laminated paper PCBs where the pads lift off the board if you even try to desolder something you added. Row/column labels missing, or (like I found with some recently) that don't line up between the front and back of the board 😆 , or most egregiously, they don't actually show the pad pattern on the front of the board, so you have to keep flipping it to check your parts are correctly placed. One example below.I have some from "BusBoard Prototype Systems" that I like. The SB4 is a 38 x 24 (912 hole) board that is <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/snappable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snappable</a> into quarters. Two of the quarters have rows that are 4-hole, 2-hole, 4-hole. The other two are 5 2-hole pads. Both types have a single bus running along each of the 2 long sides.But ...1/x<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electronics</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hobby</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ProtoBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProtoBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PerfBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PerfBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MatrixBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MatrixBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a>

𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬My personal and highly biased <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@frameworkcomputer</a> launch event conclusion:<ul><li>New Framework 13 model still with no <a href="https://gts.0x7be.net/tags/oled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OLED</a> screen</li><li>An extremely overpriced <a href="https://gts.0x7be.net/tags/desktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#desktop</a> with <a href="https://gts.0x7be.net/tags/soldered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soldered</a> <a href="https://gts.0x7be.net/tags/ram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RAM</a></li><li>A one-key module for the Framework 16 for custom keyboards</li><li>Lots and lots and lots of <a href="https://gts.0x7be.net/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> bullshit from <a href="https://gts.0x7be.net/tags/amd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AMD</a></li><li>A 12.2 inch 2-in-1 convertible with a low-end <a href="https://gts.0x7be.net/tags/touchscreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#touchscreen</a></li></ul>Im not angry or mad, I am just disappointed and completely underwhelmed.

Rommudoh<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/soldered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soldered</a> the second <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/PCB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PCB</a> that arrived yesterday. This time it's <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/diysynth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diysynth</a> related. It's a drop-in replacement for my <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/perfboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#perfboard</a> 10 step <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/sequencer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sequencer</a> control board. It has identical connectors and was one more test of my PCB design skills and quality of <a href="https://aisler.social/@aislerhq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@aislerhq</a> manufacturing. It went really nice and works perfectly in place of the old one. I only used a bottom ground plane and a different size for the board, so I'll have to redo it again for my final project. <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/synthesizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#synthesizer</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electronics</a>

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