Hi! I was wondering if anyone could give me information on whether it is possible to use the Arduino without a breadboard in connecting motors and drivers to the board to not make an akward looking circuit exxposed with loose wiring components(on the breadboard).
A breadboard is just a tool to help assemble a circuit conveniently. There are "shields" which carry sets of components for things like driving motors or playing music or GPS locating or the like but you'll often need other components for a project and a breadboard is an easy way to put everything together quickly and easily without having to solder anything. You can use proto board and solder while you're figuring something out, but it's less convenient and harder to fix mistakes or make changes. For a finished project, protoboard is much better than a breadboard but not as slick as using a custom PCB.
Ralph S. Bacon has a two-video series on creating your own Printed Circuit Board.
Which (of the more than 20 different) Arduinos?
I think the whole point of Arduino in the first place was to do this using ready made shields. A quiet trawl on eBay may reveal exactly what you want.
I never use a breadboard they are too unreliable. I always construct things on strip board.
Here is an extreme example of a complete project:-
It also includes the chips and components that make up an Arduino.
- Check these out:
Arduino, ESP32, etc boards are great for creating proto types for evaluation but are generally not suitable for an end-user application
if you are looking at small numbers do a web search for arduino rugged, arduino industrial , industrial esp32, etc
otherwise design and build a custom PCB
in particular use good quality power supplies
Go for:
Arduino UNO Board
and
Adafruit's Motor Driver Board which goes over the Arduino UNO.
If you don't want to design and order your own PC board, one alternative is to buy prototype boards that already have a typical breadboard layout in copper on one side. So after doing the breadboard version, you can just transfer the circuit to the prototype board, but solder individual wires cut to the proper length instead of a maze of jumpers. 22-gauge solid wire is best.
For the one I use, you can search eBay or Aliexpress for "prototype circuit board 14.3 4.8". The ending numbers are the size in cm. Here's an example:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803882724793.html
With shipping, a little over a dollar each. They make lots of other sizes and layouts, both bigger and smaller. Here's an example showing my mailbox notifier, which uses a Lolin D1 Mini ESP8266 module:
I always keep these in stock. They are cheap, work well, and you don't have to go through the process of designing and ordering your own board. And you can cut them in half if you like. 
thank you
Sorry, Arduino uno R3.
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