Woah. Impressive. I have a very different development methodology - I solder everything (to solderable breadboards, like these, which I sell), using male 0.1" pins and F-to-F jumpers for temporary connections. I have a few "test-bed" boards wired up with certain microcontrollers. Once I'm no longer working on a project, I can then put the working prototype in a box for storage, or a more permanent box in an out-of-the-way location for long term operation. I like to keep the whole work area available as much as possible.
Steve-SFX:
Yea.... you can never have enough breadboard.
I agree - any quantity of those unreliable things is too much as far as I'm concerned....
Ugh you guys are making me spend money again... I tried to get the ACE 218 but it's discontinued now. So Chinaexpress had 3 @ 830 pt breadboards and 3.3/5v power supplies for about $8 total... done and on a slow boat...
DrAzzy that would be kind of cool but then the breadboards are meant to be super temporay and really just to test things out... I would have to solder and re-solder in some cases... Sometimes I have to re-bias things and it gets messy. I do use something similar for the actual prototypes... I think of breadboarding as "sketching" and testing.
A lot of times I just throw out the bent components now, they're getting so cheap to get. I hate reading color codes although I like to use the mnemonic...
Interesting that you haven't had reliability problems with the breadboards. Don't worry, you will When you try to plug something with small pins into the holes that have previously accommodated pins from a pro mini, you will (those larger pins deform the contacts in the breadboard). The male jupont jumpers also just suck IMO.
What turned me off to breadboards was when I was at a friend's house and he was trying to show off something really simple, and spent 10 minutes poking at the breadboard to find the loose connection, while the observers stood there losing respect for him. This has happened every time anyone showed me a project they built on breadboard. I don't want to be that guy.
It sounds like there was an attachment or so to this post but now it's not there. Without image or other reference I have no idea what OP really tried to build.
When you try to plug something with small pins into the holes that have previously accommodated pins from a pro mini, you will (those larger pins deform the contacts in the breadboard). The male jupont jumpers also just suck IMO.