1 Circuit Skills: Perfboard Prototyping
A go-to demonstration of building circuits on perfboard, linked whenever someone asks how to move a project off the breadboard.
Topic
prototyping
14 videos. Ranked by independent recommendations, not by views.
2 EEVblog #568 - Solderless Breadboard Capacitance
Dave Jones measures the parasitic capacitance between solderless breadboard rows, cited when stray picofarads upset crystals, small capacitors or fast circuits.
3 Circuit Skills: Circuit Board Etching
A home PCB etching walkthrough that makes the process look approachable, often offered to hobbyists who want to produce boards themselves instead of ordering them.
4 EEVblog #181 - Dead Bug Prototype Soldering
An EEVblog demonstration of dead bug soldering a tiny surface mount chip, offered as a workable technique for prototyping such packages, with warnings that it needs skill.
5 #122: Electronic Circuit Construction Techniques: review of some prototype circuit building methods
A survey of ways to build a circuit more permanently than a breadboard, suggested to people ready to move a working design to something sturdier.
6 How to Use a Breadboard
A plain introduction to what a breadboard is and how to use one, offered to complete beginners before their first circuit.
7 Techniques and Strategies for Building Electronic Circuits
Community members point to this as a practical guide to hand-building prototype circuits, including Manhattan-style board construction that at least one viewer has since copied.
8 Collin's Lab: Breadboards & Perfboards #Adafruit
Collin's Lab episode on how breadboards connect under the surface and how to move a circuit onto perfboard, recommended for beginners confused about layouts.
9 Why build an entire computer on breadboards?
Ben Eater's breadboard work, linked mainly for the section comparing good and cheap solderless breadboards and for tidy wiring technique.
10 Collin's Lab: The REAL Breadboard
A Make video showing the original wooden breadboard with nails, usually linked to explain where the name comes from or as a nostalgic build idea.
11 Custom Cables & Guide to Crimping Dupont PCB Interconnect Cables
Linked a couple of times as a demonstration of Dupont style connectors and cable assemblies for breadboard and GPIO wiring.
12 How to use a BreadBoard - Electronics Basics 10
Offered as an introduction to solderless breadboards for anyone starting to build prototype circuits without soldering.
13 Making of PCBs at home, DIY using inexpenive materials
A walkthrough of etching a printed circuit board at home, offered as proof that moving from breadboard to a real PCB is within reach of a hobbyist.
14 Fritzing Tutorial Stripboard
A Fritzing walkthrough linked for planning a stripboard or perfboard layout on screen from a schematic before any soldering starts.
