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C.When building electronics project for permanent use - i.e. after testing on a solderless breadboard - you normally go to a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/soldered" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#soldered</a> perforated board of some type as a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/prototype" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#prototype</a>, or even for very-low-volume production.There are different types of boards. I dislike "matrix" boards, which are just isolated pads on a grid, i.e. there are no connections between any of them. Some people swear by these; I swear at them.I prefer protoboards that have multiple holes per pad (so you can connect multiple component leads without having to add an explicit wire jumper). If they've also got <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/busses" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#busses</a> - sets of pads that run the whole length or width of the board - so much the better!Some are <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#crap</a>: laminated paper PCBs where the pads lift off the board if you even try to desolder something you added. Row/column labels missing, or (like I found with some recently) that don't line up between the front and back of the board 😆 , or most egregiously, they don't actually show the pad pattern on the front of the board, so you have to keep flipping it to check your parts are correctly placed. One example below.I have some from "BusBoard Prototype Systems" that I like. The SB4 is a 38 x 24 (912 hole) board that is <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/snappable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#snappable</a> into quarters. Two of the quarters have rows that are 4-hole, 2-hole, 4-hole. The other two are 5 2-hole pads. Both types have a single bus running along each of the 2 long sides.But ...1/x<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#electronics</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#hobby</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ProtoBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ProtoBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PerfBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PerfBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MatrixBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MatrixBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Chinesium</a>

JohanIsn't it annoying when you've put a project together, carefully <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/soldered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soldered</a> every single pin and joint, routed wires with great care so every piece just fits without a hitch, just for it not to work? And isn't it annoying when you've taking everything apart again, tested everything(?) and it still doesn't work? And when you realise you've soldered a button wrong so that you're short-circuiting the reset pin on the board, isn't that just so incredibly annoying? <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Maker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Arduino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arduino</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Frustrating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Frustrating</a>

IT NewsLaptop Memory Upgradable Again - For some computing components, the bottleneck to improved speed and performance ha... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/01/14/laptop-memory-upgradable-again/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2024/01/14/laptop-memory-upgradable-again/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/compressionattachedmemory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#compressionattachedmemory</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computerhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computerhacks</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/upgradability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#upgradability</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/upgradable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#upgradable</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computer</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/soldered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soldered</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/laptop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#laptop</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memory</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/module" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#module</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/camm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#camm</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/dimm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dimm</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://chaos.social/@stdevel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@stdevel</a> <a href="https://kitsunes.gay/@JessiCum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JessiCum</a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/@ubuntu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ubuntu</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@bradlinder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bradlinder</a> it is the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/InconvenientTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InconvenientTruth</a>:<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lenovo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lenovo</a> brings <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a>-Style <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a> like <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/soldered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soldered</a>-down <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RAM</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PlasticSnaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlasticSnaps</a> instead od Screws, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GluedInBatteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GluedInBatteries</a> with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DRM</a> instead of toolfree hot-swappable ones and worse <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/quality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quality</a>.Seriously, I would've bought myself a fully-decked out <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/P15v" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#P15v</a> if Lenovo didn't fecked it up with my work-issied machine.I once really loved their devices and I'll keep to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UseLonger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UseLonger</a> my <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/X230t" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#X230t</a>... <a href="https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110905896594073677" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110905896594073677</a>

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