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[ChanceKJ]

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[SavannahLion]

It's a thought but why not buy a small bread board?

I have one I glued to a piece of scrap wood with mounts for a 9v battery, a 5v barrel jack and a couple of switches hot glued alongside it. The nice part is I can easily test different resistors and LEDs on it.

I have a different setup for SMT LEDs.

[ChanceKJ]

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[matt4949]

/orders breadboard.

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[ChanceKJ]

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[yotsuya]

It's from Jurassic Par... you know what... never mind.

I got it, bro. Great scene.

[rhys]

Sketchup is horrible for PCB designs.  If you want to do PCB designs, get the free hobbyist version of Cadsoft Eagle or Diptrace, or if you're into OSS software, KiCad.  Those would be appropriate programs for designing PCBs in (I know, I use all three).  From those you can export Gerber files to either convert to G-Code to mill a single sided PCBs, or send the Gerbers to SeeedStudio to have them produced cheap, or print negatives to do PCB etching.  My preference is to order PCB's from SeeedStudio.  Most of my designs are under 50mmx50mm, so it's $10 for 10 PCBs.  I'll likely be ordering a batch soon to make some quick disconnect shields for the TI Launchpad for my control interface design.

--Rhys

[matt4949]

It's from Jurassic Par... you know what... never mind.

I was just subscribing too see where this might go. I like tinkering with solid state electronics.