1 Jun
2009
1 Jun
'09
10:11 a.m.
On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:53 AM, David Griffith wrote:
It seemed to me that Radio Shack stopped selling plain
perfboard a
year or two ago. Yet a couple days ago, I found lots
of it at the one
a few blocks from my house. Anyone else know anything
about this?
Solder-ringed perfboard is good for stuff, but I find
plain perfboard
nice for building up stuff that's not necessarily
a circuit.
A couple years ago I gave up on perfboard for prototyping and now largely do prototyping
"dead bug" on unetched printed circuit board.
Or, sometimes courtesy of a big knife, unetched PCB with busses cut into it.
Google "dead bug" prototyping for some good examples. It is in every way
superior to using perfboard. Even what I once thought were problem cases are not actually
problems: dual-row headers work great with dead bug, as long as most or all the pins on
one side are at ground (long the convention among any rational uses.)
Tim.