Path: csiph.com!news.fcku.it!peer02.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx34.am4.POSTED!not-for-mail Reply-To: spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk Subject: Re: Bread board etc. Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design References: From: Tom Gardner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:23:07 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:23:06 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 1523 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3000676112 Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:489666 On 29/12/17 23:32, Andy wrote: > What do I need in order to solder my parts for a project ? > > I looked up breadboard but not sure if that's what I need. > > Is there something I can use to insert resistors etc. and test my circuit before soldering? With solderless breadboards you usually end up debugging the breadboard, the interconnections and the parasitics. It is almost always better to use dead bug, live bug, manhattan, or any of the other techniques where you solder components together in an ad-hoc fashion. Done properly, the results can be good, robust and a good indication of how a circuit would work if make on a PCB. Indeed, often for one-offs it is unnecessary to actually make a "proper" PCB.