Your Electronics Workbench
WHAT YOU NEED TO GET STARTED IN HOBBY ELECTRONICS.
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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