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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 39
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 39

by Mark Frauenfelder
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
116 pages
5h 50m
English
Make: Community
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123 Springboard

Written by Casey Shea image Illustrations by Julie West image Photo by Gunther Kirsch

I GET A VICARIOUS THRILL watching young makers’ eyes light up like the LEDs in the conductive dough they’re working with. But that feeling is too often followed by shared frustration at the increased difficulty when they switch to a solderless breadboard.

To ease the transition, I call back to duty the springboard, a 50-year-old relic that’s difficult to find these days, but is easy and cheap to make. The layout mimics a breadboard, so by the time students ...

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