HiTech said:Bread Board?
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Oops! See how easy it is to get distracted?
Nigel Goodwin said:Not really, that's where the name comes from - you knock nails in the board and solder wires and components between them!.
mramos1 said:Sounds like a lot of work. Imagine if that was all we had today but with chips (not transistors). I can see the hand drawing of it on paper now.. People today do not know just how good we have it.
Dr.EM said:I expect that manhattan style construction for RF is similar looking to that old fashioned "breadboard" type. Want to try a theremin with that actually...
Now, THAT would be neat gag. "Intro to electronics" - hammer not included.zevon8 said:Ah bread board.... over 30 years ago I did one in school, a superhet radio. Piece of wood with the radio schematic glued down like wallpaper, then nails at each junction, parts hovering on the copper rails.
Worked pretty darn well I might add. Nice "teaching aid" also, and was easy to test and align, being all spread out like that.
mramos1 said:What is nice to know is I am not the only old'er guy here.
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