Questions tagged [stripboard]
Stripboard is a popular type of electronics prototyping board with a 0.1 inch (2.54 mm) grid of holes, connected by strips of copper running in one direction all the way across one side of the board. It is also known by the name Veroboard, which is a trademark of British company Vero Technologies Ltd.
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A question about a connector with staggered pins
I have ribbon cable which uses a staggered male IDC connector, which plugs into a corresponding staggered female PCB mount connector.
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USB (low speed) on stripboard: can it work?
I recently designed a PCB, with a connector for an extension module for "future uses" (with various signals: GPIOs, I2C, SPI, USB2.0, USB3.1, PCIe Gen4).
The connectors are fine pitched (and ...
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Routing on stripboard/prototyping PCB
I'm regularly tasked with doing "quick and dirty" prototypes on stripboard and other prototyping PCBs (holes only, patterns like the solder-less breadboards, etc.).
Those are usually very ...
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Connection from breadboard to stripboard
I already have my circuit placed on breadboard. Now I need to transfer it on stripboard. My question is I can just transfer the exact same connection and placement on stripboard right? I don't need to ...
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Review my layout to see if I've missed anything
This is my first attempt at a schematic to Vero layout so a more educated and experienced set of eyes would be much appreciated. I am also open to suggestions and criticisms.
Also, I'm putting this in ...
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Why is my infrared transmitter/receiver circuit not working?
I tried to make this circuit, but it didn't work like it should. I thought my connections were right but maybe it not.
This is the circuit diagram:
This is my layout. (I used other components as ...
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How do I transfer this circuit to stripboard?
I want to construct this circuit because it look worth to try. However, I am not sure about connection between the components. This is the components placement that I tried, does it make sense?
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What is the difference between a perf board and a stripboard?
From what I know, perf boards have individual copper holes but stripboards have rows of connected copper. Are there any difference besides their appearance? ie such as the limitations of voltage or ...
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can i cut a large strip board into a smaller one?
I need a 17 hole by 8 hole strip board. I could only buy a much larger one. Can I cut the larger one to the size I need without destroying it? If so, how would I do that?
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Can I build a 4A circuit on cardboard?
I'm planning to build a 12V 4A circuit, and I was originally going to put it on a strip board. However, the board I ordered came broken (and each piece would be a bit small for building a circuit), ...
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Powering 10 servomotors + Arduino
I'm set on using a single Li-Po for a whole 10-servo robot, splicing the power with those Wago connectors into three step-down converters:
5V for Arduino Uno & PWM driver with 7 servos (6V would ...
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How to find and remove the buzzer from a Morphy Richards Breadmaker
I just bought a Morphy Richards breadmaker that is great in all ways, but it beeps in the middle of the night and wakes me up (both when it begins baking and when it's finished). So I was wondering if ...
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Stripboard: Linking Neighboring Rows
If I need to link two neighboring rows for a stripboard build is there any reason I should make a wire link over just placing a blob of solder between them? This is for a guitar pedal so the board ...
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LM35 sensor giving weird readings [closed]
I am a mechanical engineering student and I'm quite bad at electronics so I decided to post here. For my dissertation, I require 2 circuits using the same 5.7 V DC power supply. One of the circuits is ...
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Building AC to DC circuit that can not be run on a breadboard
First I have an AC power source.
Can I solder the power source directly to a rectifier to make it DC?
I plan on using a protoboard using the DC power but I need the board to be able to handle 2Amps ...
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