Collin's Lab: The REAL Breadboard
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Ever wonder why they call it an electronics "breadboard"? Way back in the day, folks had to be pretty resourceful to pursue an electronics hobby. So power down the soldering iron and go grab a hammer - it's time to try building on a real breadboard. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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he should have his own channel :)
Found you.
I see you.
This is good since i always find it so hard to make sandwiches after I have built electronics
Use the other side
Collin is my hero when it comes to explaining these concepts. A pity he doesn’t seem to be producing content anymore.
Collin's witt and wisdom can be found on Adafruit's channel. Cheers!
Man I would love to have this guy as a teacher...
i was thoroughly convinced it was going to be made of bread
When I was 12, I used to make my circuits like this, since I was so poor and lived in a isolated area, haha I had to put nails on a board and start connecting things exactly like this.
It's where the name 'bread board' comes from. People just hammered nails into the bread cutting board.
Hope you're doing great now!
@@rich1051414 No. It goes back to the 1920's when radio was becoming popular. Men used to mount the large radio parts such as vacuum tube sockets, transformers, coils, etc on the wife's breadboard. Eventually, any piece of wood with components mounted on it became known as a breadboard. Breadboard radios show up on ebay quite often.
@@rich1051414 That's not true. It come's from the 1920's during the advent of radio when men used to build radios on their wives' breadboards. Real live breadboards courtesy of angry wife. LOL!
@@drcowan3468 So they didn't hammer nails into the breadboard? Or they did? Cause you said I am wrong, and then went on to say I was right.
I wasn't expecting the slicing of the bread at the end. Your best video!
I still do it this way. It really looks great to hang some good circuits on the wall.
Collin Cunningham should have his own TH-cam channel.
+Sam Shim He had his own TH-cam channel, but he hasn't got any contents about Electronics. (sorry for my poor engligh :P)
+Egy Ember He's working at Adafruit Industries now, too busy to make more videos I guess
I got it :-)
wow you really put effort into making your circuits, the number of twists per component attachment. just amazes me, looks so need and tidy. great effort.
I love that you guys are putting more of Collins video up
we miss your great content Collin!!
if its not collin i wont watch it
Just recently found your channel and subscribed. Mad props to the skills, and thanks for sharing the know how with the uploads.
I prefer using a Pizza oven paddle, I can make larger projects.=))
i love it, its so much easier to understand what is going on in the circuit because all the traces and connections are easily visible
This is where I got started back in the day nice to see
Thank you makemagazine for doing more collins lab!!
Always love your videos Colin, cant beat your witty humor.
my first ever circuit(as far as i can remember) was built on a wooden board, with brass nails and copper wire. but i also soldered it together.
In the 50's Yes 1950's, My brother and I built a Radio crystal set on a Small plank, suppose it was the first breadboard, (I wonder if I can claim copy rights , Nah ) We used earphones , copper wire on a empty toilet roll and a crystal, Simple . Just saying . Loved the video , thanks.
Plus with parts like transistors , capacitors and so on. When you solder them to the Brass/Copper nails on top, you have plenty of room underneath for more connections. Plus these bread boards are AWESOME for High Voltage 'Jacob Ladder' top circuits. The arcs dance around from nail to nail on the board. REALLY Mindblowing!
Great demo! Thanks for the post.
great learning module Colin!
I love these old videos.
That was hysterical. I love Collin’s Lab.
I have a modern breadboard that I can use to build temporary circuits on but this idea looks like a great idea for higher voltages and maybe for simple circuits that I want to make permanent. I thoroughly enjoy Collins videos, he should get a pay raise to do more videos. :-)
PLEASE MAKE MORE, MAKE YOU OWN CHANNEL I LOVE AND LEARN SO MUCH FROM YOUR VIDEOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have always wondered that. Collin, you are awesome - thanks!
one of the best vids youve made!!
I love this show. You're awesome.
Very Nice Explaination Bro.
Never knew the history of breadboard
Thumbs up. Collin's videos are awesome. Thank you so much.
Yeah, I agree I love watching your videos! Please make more!
I was like WOW THATS NICE when seeing this. As you say you have the freedom to make it look EXACTLY as in the schematic! Obviously the new breadboards are better especially for more complex circuits but I can see this was very useful back then.
This guy is awesome. Just binge-watched a bunch of his vids. Where'd he go?
Jonathon Powell
th-cam.com/users/CollinMel
thanks kindly for sharing these videos, cheers
Good show Colliin!
I love you, Collin. Just found you today, yet...
Very cool. Suprisingly elegant!
"I wouldn't want to try nailing an IC to this thing." That made me laugh :-)
I get the feeling someone's going to try that...
It's awesome that it's looking exactly like in the schematics!
The first thing you showed us is often referred to as a "protoboard". or, solderless proto socket. The only time I've ever used a literal "breadboard" was back when I would build tube amplifiers. Everything was soldered point to point. They were dangerous as could be, but, very easy to rework.
I've only ever heard protoboard used to refer to perfboard or veroboard... Man, there's a lot of names for circuit prototyping platforms.
@djscottdog1 Well a T flip flop is actually a circuit that toggles its output when it sees a active edge on its output. This circuit is called a astable multivibrator. With a few modifications it could be turned in to a RS flip flop.
Colin...I have no idea how old you are. I'm old enough to have received a gift for Christmas in 1973 or '74 that Radio Shack sold. It's a hybrid of sorts. It was their 150 in 1 electronic projects board. It was a lacquered wooden box with individual components mounted to the board with a glued down paper overlay that identified each component along with its schematic symbol and each had a number of coil spring clips that were connected underneath and out of view corresponding to the number of connections to the component. The BJTs had 3 the caps and resistors had two, the electromechanical relay had five, etc. There was a bag of bits that had some external kit like a momentary telegraph type SPST switch and the like and it had a color coded set of pre cut jumper wires of differing lengths.
very nice and clean circuit
badass. this looks fun and more accessible. easy to trouble shoot. i think i will be doing this
This is crazy in one of the most positive ways possible!!!!
Looks pretty cool. :)
What kind of nails would you use, to ensure the best conductivity?
this looks really fun!
Collin... your facial expressions makes me laugh and for some odd reason brings me in closer to what your both saying and doing. Cool! More electronic video's please.... :)
yea well my electronics lab happens to be the kitchen table, so a sandwich is in close proximity, great video collin, like your style
@xTKxWoW You probably speak volumes for hundreds of Make Magazine's subscribers. Kudos for speaking for all of us like you.
reminds me of DIY tube amp builders making turret boards to mount the resistor capacitor section and gain stages of an amp
Okay, that is just freaking amazing.
For a 9 volt supply, you should place diodes in the emitter path of each transistor to prevent the base-emitter junctions' maximum allowable voltage from being exceeded.
collin and pete are the reason i subbed.
Wow! This is very cool and interesting too!
That's kind of what we did in grade 9 science class... now I'm wondering why we didn't use actual breadboards instead of flat pieces of wood and nails.
I remember building that circuit. Go times.
I really really really want to make a radio on an actual breadboard. I have no idea where to start though
Should be pretty simple if you're okay with AM.
try to begin with what we call detector reciever radio. only one diode, headphones with high ohms (military headset should work well) couple of wires for ground and antenn. you will doesn't even need a battery!
hmmm a military headset, seems easy enough to find...
First get a breadboard.
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Take a tip from Mary Poppins. Start at the beginning!
Could you explain the schematic for this circuit please ! I really want to learn how oscillators work ?
ya sure !!!! and thanx for ur feed back sir !!!!
I made my first electronic circuit that way in school, way back in 1987, when I was 15
When making multiple loops of wire around each nail node, how much does inductance affect the particulars of the circuit? Or does it not matter when the voltage is low?
The copper around the nail creates electromagnetic induction if I'm not mistaken, and does that have any effect if even un- noticeable effect on the the closer components and or transistor leads?
excellent ending, what a slice!
more Collin's Lab's!
@timp01081995 you can find pretty cheap conductive wire like that in the craft sections at walmart or in hobby-lobby
Charles and Ray Ames would flash with delight.
For my D.T. course work i am building a really accurate timer and was wondering if you thought that using a 555 timer or PIC would be better at creating the pulses. Many thanks
@toamakuta actually that does sound like a good idea. put it up in a clear plastic case for display. it would definitely be a conversation starter.
This is amazing! :D I have always wondered why breadboard was called that and people have asked me many times! But I have never been able to give them an answer! Now I can :D Might try this out... plus I have never used the transistor flasher circuit... only ever a 555 timer.
My uni still uses something like this. Except it's pegboard with snap in metal pegs. it's really great for labs.
Collin's Lab _and_ MAKE presents! Though I know most of the things Collin explains in MAKE presents, it mostly helps me explain it to others :)
This may be a dumb question. But, with this and how the bare wire is coiled around the nails, does this give an amplified effect? You would think that each coil and nail would act like an inductor. I'm just learning so....be easy if you reply.
That's the coolest CKT I've ever seen! :D
@Markypizz what I was expecting was the breadboard perfboard with stale bread below it to hold it there
@BurningArtsStudios agreed. he's favorite segment on makemagazine.
Hey man. I've recently started fooling around with electronics because I've lost the use of my legs. I'm teaching myself. You have any suggestions? Would like to build some guitar effects pedals. Big fan of your videos. Joe.
SaWEEET!!! Always was curious!!
We were told by my instructor before that the reason it was cold breadboard was because of the wholes and color. It does kinda look like bread.
@WyB007 thanks. i really didn't expect an answer.
Go back 100 years when the "breadboards" were made of wood and the components (tube sockets, power transformers, tunable air capacitors, lamps, etc.) generally were of the large variety and often even had mounting holes in their bases to mount them down (to a board).
that's so awesomely retro
beautiful!
thank you for the explanation
You should use Brass or Copper nails for this. When we made ours- and soldered parts we used the brass or copper ones. I suggest the same for non solder boards.
@AssemblerGuy your right my mistake , very similar , i was shore that flip flops had capacitors in them
I've been a kipkay fan, but Collin is good too. Does he also have his own build channel here on YT? Every project he does makes my brain go crazy with ideas.
@oledcrt lol, im glad im not the only one :) i was thinking, "how is he going to get connections through a piece of bread?!" XD
No Fahnstock clips? lol ;) Pre IC/PCB days, I tended to use small wood screw and washers. No loose connections that way.
Does the twisting of the copper wire have any adverse effects on the circuit as far as EMI?
Collin made a great point... I'd HATE to have to incorporate an IC to that... the pinouts on a lot of them are hard enough to figure out, trying to connect them without soldering would be a nightmare.
@pcmask Yeah but nothing to worry about in a circuit like that. They wouldn't affect anything at that kind of low frequency. Go up into several tens of MHz then yes, you will have small antennas and stray inductances everywhere.
White LED's on woodgrain... bad feng shui :)
I like this, and all Make has done so far.
Good stuff, I wish they taught us this practice back at school, instead of visual schematics and equations, seemingly disconnected from practical reality.
wouldn't the nails cause some kind of resistance? compared to stray capacitance in a breadboard?
nice job collin!
So awesome !!!
Informative, and funny.