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Am I the only one who misses hand wiring on a breadboard before buying a PCB?
Back in 2019 I built a 60% board on a cheap breadboard and a Teensy 2.0, and that messy pile of jumper wires in my Denver apartment taught me more about matrix wiring than any kit ever did. I get why everyone jumps straight to a hotswap PCB now, but there was something about tracing a bad column with a multimeter at 11pm that made the hobby stick. My first case was just a cardboard box with holes poked in it, and it worked fine for six months. Does anyone here still breadboard a layout before dropping $80 on a plate and case, or am I just being stubborn?
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christopher_west113d ago
Cardboard case gang. Ran one for like 4 months before I bothered with a real plate. Still breadboard every layout now, way cheaper to move a row of switches around than reorder a plate you cut wrong. Two hours with a meter saves you 80 bucks every time.
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