[sdiy] how to best learn the trade

[Peter Keller]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:50:48AM -0600, Tim Daugard wrote:
> I agree with Scott on breadboarding one set and building a second. You
> should always have enough parts to make two. The first goes on the
> breadboard and the second goes on the perfboard (bare or with copper
> patterns). The one on the perfboard is soldered with all important parts
> in sockets.

Yeah, building two copies, one temporary and one permanent is a good thing.

Also, one thing that helps me is to assemble the circuit (on the PCB)
in phases. Like power supply first, then test that phase, then make an
adjoining phase, then test that phase, etc, etc, etc. It is much easier
to debug and fix when assembling something incrementally.

-pete