And don’t get me started on those project boxes right now.Īnother option is to use perf board.
That works, but it too has its limitations. And by creative, I mean a lot of us learned to use hot glue to shove everything into a box, and keep it secure. Portability (and stability) are issues, as is any sort of permanence. When your project lives on a breadboard, there’s not much you can do with it after the project is completed.
With that said, overwhelmingly the only problem I had with any of my projects was purely logistical. Needless to say, Arduino and I have a history together. And in that time, I have made lots of cool projects with them: GPS dog collars, bike computers, every sensor imaginable, radios, along with a host of others. I’ve been playing around with Arduino since Tom Igoe released his ‘ Making Things Talk’ book through O’Reilly media in 2007. In the time since the initial release, I’ve talked to a lot of people about Copper, and the overwhelming response from the non-engineer crowd is simply: “Cool, but why would I make a PCB?”. Copper is a web app that lets you easily create PCBs on your home CNC machine by simply dragging and dropping Gerber files. We released Carbide Copper in early April.