[sdiy] prototype boarding (help?) and homemade pcbs.

[Seb Francis]

Woops, that should have said:
"Hey, don't *knock* solderless breadboards"

Seb Francis wrote:
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>> First of all, are you working with a solderable prototyping board 
>> (otherwise known as "perfboard"), or are you using one of those white 
>> plastic, unreliable-as-hell, waffle-hole temporary proto-boards?  Not 
>> that you shouldn't use them, but... you shouldn't.  Their flakiness 
>> will just add an additional layer of uncertainty to your experiments.
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> Hey, don't know solderless breadboards .. I've got a 50MHz digital 
> circuit with 2 PICs & a 24/96 CODEC on a SMT adapter, and a bunch of 
> other stuff all hooked up at the moment, and it's working just fine .. 
> ok so I'm not quite getting 24bit resolution out of the CODECs what 
> with all the cross talk ;)  .. but  for testing circuit principles its 
> a nice quick way to check you haven't made any silly mistakes in the 
> circuit design.
>
> And, as for unreliable .. I've never had any problems (aside from the 
> obvious parasitic capacitance and extra crosstalk).  Maybe I've just 
> got lucky and have a good breadboard ... but I'm also careful not to 
> ever stick anything the wrong size in the holes.
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> Seb
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