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Make: Maker Projects Guide
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Make: Maker Projects Guide

by Mark Frauenfelder
July 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
112 pages
5h 10m
English
Make: Community
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Your Electronics Workbench

WHAT YOU NEED TO GET STARTED IN HOBBY ELECTRONICS.

By Charles Platt

The Basics

First, you’ll need a breadboard. You can call it a “prototyping board,” but this is like calling a battery a “power cell.” Search online for “breadboard” and you’ll find more than a dozen products, all of them for electronics hobbyists, and none of them useful for doing anything with bread.

A breadboard is a plastic strip perforated with holes 1/10" apart, which happens to be the same spacing as the legs on old-style silicon chips — the kind that were endemic in computers before the era of surface-mounted chips with legs so close together only a robot could love them. Fortunately for hobbyists, old-style chips are still in plentiful supply ...

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