
63Chapter 3: Conductive Materials
Ribbon cable
This flat, flexible, and lightweight cable comes
with anywhere between four and eighty insulated
wires running side by side on a flat plane. You
can peel away a select number of conductors you
need as a separate chunk.
Speaker cable
This is extremely flexible and widely available,
and a simple and clean way to run two
connections over a longer distance. The
different wires are electrically the same but are
marked for polarity, which can be useful when
assembling a circuit.
Multiconductor cable
This is a catch-all term for multiple insulated
stranded wires collected in a shared jacket.
This can include ...