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

[Ian Fritz]

At 06:51 AM 5/13/06, Seb Francis wrote:
>Woops, that should have said:
>"Hey, don't *knock* solderless breadboards"
>
>>
>>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 hole.

Same story here.  And crosstalk problems can usually be mitigated by not 
using adjacent rows.  I think there must be some really junky units out 
there, but you folks that have them should invest in a high quality one 
instead of all this generic badmouthing.  You'll wonder how you ever lived 
without it!

   Ian