Solderless Breadboards For Building DIY Electronics Projects

Building electronic circuits is easy with solderless breadboards

BB830 Solderless
Plug-in BreadBoard,
830 tie-points,
4 power rails

When I started out in electronics I would build prototype circuits by hammering nails into a block of wood then soldering wires and components between the nails. I started to do it this way soon after I grew out of the engineering kit that my parents got me for Christmas. No one could have been more surprised than I was when I got my first job in a TV factory and I found that building circuits on a bed of nails breadboard was common industry practice.

To this day my mother makes a point of telling everyone how the floor of my bedroom was permanently covered with a carpet of bits of wire and solder blobs from my diy hobby electronics table. How embarrassing is that when you are a teenager? If solderless breadboards had been available back then a lot of the mess that I generated could have been avoided. Especially the solder blobs in the carpet which are not easy to vacuum up and don't do the carpet much good either.

Cleaner hobby electronics

But which solderless breadboard should you go for? They come in all different shapes and sizes and if you have never used one before it can be difficult to to know which one is best.

Which board to choose

So I decided that I would treat myself to one. I researched all the boards on Amazon and settled on an 830 tie-point, 4 power rail solderless breadboard. It seems to be big enough to build a decent circuit and small enough not to get in the way on the kitchen table too much. Click here to order one for yourself right now.

Don't worry if you outgrow this particular board because you can always expand your circuits by simply buying more breadboards later.

How to plan your circuit build

My Solderless Breadboard

Building circuits this way is easy. Once you have figured out where the components should go you just slide the leads into the holes. No problem at all.

Click here to order yourself a solderless breadboard now.