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BREADBOARD RACK

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A simple way to interconnect protoboards.

By Tom Zimmerman

Photography by Tom Zimmerman

Solderless protoboards are a convenient way to build electronic circuits, but interconnecting several boards gets messy. Adding input and output (I/O) components such as switches, potentiometers, jacks, and LEDs requires drilling, wiring, and stuffing it all into a box, where it’s hard to debug and modify.

A nicer approach, which I borrowed from early analog synthesizers, is to build handy modules that carry one protoboard each and plug into ...

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