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    Breadboards

    A breadboard is a solderless plugboard that is reusable and used for prototyping in electronics. The fact that it is solderless allows it to be used for creating temporary prototypes and circuit designs. For an overview of breadboard layouts, types, and brands, see our breadboard guide. RS offer a selection of high-quality PCB solderless breadboard, strips, kits, and starter kits for all your electronics design needs.

    What are breadboards?

    A breadboard is only a board for circuit prototyping or construction. It enables you to build circuits without soldering by allowing you to arrange parts and interconnections on the board. By physically hanging onto the pieces or wires where you place them and electrically linking them within the board, the holes inside the breadboard start taking care of your connections. Simple circuit prototyping may be done quickly and easily because to the speed and simplicity of usage. High frequency circuits and more complicated circuits are less suitable for breadboarding. Contrary to printed circuit boards (PCBs) or PERF boards (protoboards), which are better for long-term usage, breadboard circuits are not as expensive to design and produce or need soldering (PCBs).

    What is a solderless breadboard

    Before completing any circuit design, circuits are immediately built and tested on a breadboard. Circuitry parts like resistors and ICs may be placed into the breadboard's many holes. To fit conventional DIP components, the holes are typically spaced 0.1" apart. a normal breadboard with power distribution rails on the top and bottom.

    The breadboard comprises sets of five holes that are connected by metal socket strips that run below the board. The placement of the metal strips is seen below. Notably, the holes in the bottom and toprows are joined horizontally, whilst the ones in the middle portions are joined vertically.

    How to use the breadboard correctly?

    It's critical to breadboard a circuit cleanly and methodically so that it may be quickly and readily debugged and put into operation. When another person needs to comprehend and examine the circuit, it also helps.

    To prevent the board from becoming congested, position the jumper breadboard wires or Dupont wires so that they rest flat on the board. Avoid running jumper wires over the packages by going all around integrated circuits instead. As required, this makes switching out the chips simpler.

    It's a good idea to trim the leads of parts like resistors, capacitors, transistors, and LEDs so that they fit snugly to the board and don't accidentally get pulled out. Short breadboard jumper wires and leads may seem neater, but they will only fit into a certain "span" of breadboard sockets holes, restricting their application in subsequent experiments. While investigating various circuit configurations, using parts with longer leads is totally acceptable.

    Buy your breadboard from us

    Whether you are looking for a solderable breadboard, small breadboard, or mini breadboard, you can take a look at the products we have. Along with the online breadboard, you can also buy Arduino jumper wires. The bread board price is quite affordable, and we help anyone to buy a MB102 or ESP32 breadboard without spending a fortune.

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    Prototyping Solderless Breadboard
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    Power Block
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    1.6mm
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    Electro PJP
    Breadboard
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    Prototyping Board
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    Kitronik
    Prototyping Board
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    Elditest
    Prototyping Board
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    Sunhayato
    Prototyping Board
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    Electro PJP
    Breadboard
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    2390
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    27mm
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    Digilent
    Solderless Breadboard Kit
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    2390
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    Roth Elektronik
    Solderable Breadboard With Adaption Circuit Board
    46.99mm
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    17.14mm
    1.5mm
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    Sunhayato
    Prototyping Board
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    Prototyping Board
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    24mm
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    Takachi Electric Industrial
    Universal PCB
    136mm
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    1.6mm
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    Prototyping Board
    13mm
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