Words such as breadboard and prototype have an almost romantic allure in the electrical engineering world. Although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, they are somewhat different: a ...

We will refer to these article collections as “Breadboards,” “Tools,” and “Components” for short. We’re assuming that we are in possession of a full-size breadboard and associated wires (Components, ...

I was just skimming through Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this ever-expanding mega-mini-series when I realized we had not yet covered the topic of how to power our breadboards. Of course, this depends ...

Back in the late 1960's, I experimented with DTL. That's not a misprint. DTL stands for diode-transistor logic and it was popular in “930-series” logic devices. I used wire-wrap or point-to-point ...