Didn't have room for a breadboard in the final assembly, this is going to be part of my stealth-mount. So I figured why not solder it up all nice and compact. Like so.



Oh yeah.

No. I meant for your prototyping. Rather than having a big lump of wires and solder that you constantly have to solder and desolder and is hard to handle, to boot, you could have a tidy, easy-to-manipulate breadboard that you can just plug components in and out of.

Your little package looks not-too-bad, assuming that you don't end up shorting something out with all that metal hanging all over the place.

No. I meant for your prototyping.

Oh, but where's the fun in that?

That bottle in the background for before or after the soldering?

If you want to avoid deadbug construction then using a small bit of veroboard is quite a good idea. It's fairly cheap and it's easy to cut the tracks with something sharp.

- Trevor

Patrick lost me after the saying "The problem"

That bottle in the background for before or after the soldering?

After the prototype worked, I had mah self a little flavored beer to celebrate. Then I dismantled it and re-soldered it intto the small version.

Surprising how much harder it is to focus on tiny objects after just one beer.

Now if I'd done that in the office and muttered something about "electronics best practice", everyone would have laughed at me

Hugo

Yeah, and I'd bet you'd have the same answer as mine: "Don't laugh, it WORKS."