Wireless prototyping board

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

I'm considering the purchase of some of this:
cgi.ebay.com/ME-PB-103RBW-wireless-circuit-proto-prototype-PCB-board_W0QQitemZ110157515398QQihZ001QQcategoryZ36327QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
(no I'm not the seller... [noparse]:)[/noparse]

Has anyone used any of this with success? Looks like you can cut the unwanted traces with an exacto-knife

Oldbitcollector

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Steve Joblin

I've seen these on ebay for quite some time and have always thought about giving them a try... I don't know how easy it is to cut the traces though, especially if there is a solder mask.

If you decide to give them a try, let us know how they turn out!· I, for one, would be very interested!

RDL2004

From reading a lot of other message boards I know that electronic hobbyists outside the USA use a thing called a track cutter (or sometimes "bit") to cut the traces on "veroboard" (what we would call stripboard). Here is a link as an example:

www.zen22142.zen.co.uk/Prac/vero_circ/vero.htm. Look at the blue handled tool in the step 1 picture.

I don't know if you can get these in America, but at one time there was somebody selling them on eBay. They were in England though. I would think you could try a small drill bit chucked in an exacto knife or something.

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- Rick

Steve Joblin

hmmm... don't know if that would work on these types of boards... the foil on veroboards is quite easy to get to as there is nothing covering it... the boards that
Oldbitcollector·was looking at have traces that are covered with soldermask.

The good part is that I just learned something new!· I never knew what the preferred method was to cut traces on veroboard... an Exacto knife seemed like a hack... surprised that you don't see those tools being sold in the US!

metron9

I had the opposit idea and i will get some made on my next board order. I thought what if I used the solder bridge method to connect the holes? But the traces on the top of the board a few mm apart so a dot of solder would connect them. I have seen this done on various boards that have circuits on them instead of a dip switch. Small boards 2 x 2 inches with a couple of buss lines to the edge of one side would allow a 90 degree double pin header to be soldered on so you could stick that on astandard breadboard as modules. What do you think?

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RDL2004

It's all basically the same - making connections.

With those wireless boards, everything is connected. You have to disconnect what you don't want. With perfboard, it's the exact opposite. Nothing is connected, you have to make every connection you need. The veroboard (or stripboard) is kind of in between. I think the way my brain works makes the perfboard method easier to deal with.

However, I don't think it would be that difficult to cut through the soldermask, and for that reason I think that with the wireless board a given circuit would be much easier and quicker to implement.

By the way, for some of the most beautiful perfboard circuitwork you've ever seen, go look around at

The Hobby Electronics from Japan

Look at some of the "Electronic circuit beans collection"

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