Friday, February 10, 2012

AE EP#26 The Ultimate Breadboard

Posted on February 4, 2012 by admin

While I was working on my Oscilloscope project I discovered, that breadboards are only semi-useful for Bigger things. Everything seems not to add to your project but to just pile up on it. After you added some probes and things that need a bus you will sit on a fragile, unforgiving crapstack, that just waits for you to stick a jumper-wire in the wrong hole. So I decided to make myself some room on the board and push connectors, displays and meters away from the center. Just take a look what came out:


check out the vid to get a walkthrough


So here is a little list what it includes:
  • 2 max 232 Level converters
  • An arduino NG
  • 3 BNC connectors
  • 8 banana Plugs
  • A 50 V voltmeter
  • Tiny tiny breadboard for displays and button stuff
  • 4×7-segment display with driving transistors
  • Datavision DV-20208 HD44780 compatible LC-display
  • 2x lm3914 bar-graph displays with jumper selectable voltage range
  • Avr-Net-IO for some Ethernet
  • A -10V -5V GND +5V +10V earth 0V 35V Power supply
  • and of course a humongous breadboarding area
This is of course just a source of ideas so if you make one of your own please let me know and if you don’t publish yourself, I’d be delighted to show off pictures of yours here!

Some words on construction:
The base is made from a piece of structured plastic (45 x 30 cm) on top of that are some pieces of wood with some plastic veneer that form the body. This makes up the wedge form in the back. On top once again I used some sign plastic covered with red spraypaint, why red? because its shiny :)
Ground and Earth are normally separated and can be connected on demand.
List of inspiration and component
PS.: the space above the tiny breadboard is reserved for some raspberry-pi…
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