In my
experience, "solderless breadboard" is the usual term, [...]
That's
what I've always heard them called. I know they're generally
considered terrible,
They are...for some things. They're just fine for a lot of others.
but I've had lots of luck with them for low-speed
projects
Same here. I've even had them work OK for high speed, at least high
speed for stuff I build, which means the low megahertz, possibly even a
few tens of megahertz. But I suspect that's more an artifact of high
gain overcoming the problems than their not being any problems - all
such stuff I've done has been digital.
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