Trying to power several things from arduino without a breadboard

Using Arduino General Electronics
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Hello folks --

I'm new to building with arduino. I'm currently working on a little project that has a servo, a few leds, and the LCD display screen.

Currently, I have it set up so that everything runs into the power and ground rails on the breadboard (see the attachment. sorry, it's kind of messy and overlapping).

I'm just wondering if there's some kind of product that gives the same utility as the breadboard, but is just some stand-alone connector to run a 5v or a GND into. Like a "one female" to "many females" connector. Or a "female to many-male" because I have plenty of f-to-f connectors.

I have no electronics background, so I don't even know the name of something like this. I'd think a "coupler" maybe, but that seems to be something different.

Thanks. As always, sorry if this has been asked. I googled and bit and searched here, but I don't even know good search terms for this.

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Can make one up - solder a wire from the source across the pins of a male or female header, use that as the distribution point.
USB is only good for 500mA, there's a 500mA rated resettable fuse after the USB connector going to the board, powering a screen and a servo may cause power loss issues, processor resets, erratic behavior, or a blown fuse, which will reset (unmelt basically) after it cools down.

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Thanks for the reply.

"Header". That's what I was missing.

If you have time for a couple followups. . .

I know this is probably electronics 101, but I'm coming at this from a programming background, not an electronics background and I haven't done any soldering yet. I've just used the breadboard.

Are you saying I could solder a wire across the bottom of several male pins, so I could still slide a female onto them?

Or, if I'm already soldering, just solder everything across the top of the males and solder the leads for my components on at the same time?

Followup to other issue : if I plug the board into a wall socket, would that avoid some of those issues?

FWIW, I've already run the whole thing off a USB, and it was fine (IRL, not just a simulation), but I had the servo running naked so the power requirements could change I guess.