On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:53 AM, David Griffith wrote: 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.