Im just getting back into building circuits on my breadboard and I want to know if there are any tips from the pros on here to help me on my journey. Also some links to resources for projects would be nice.

  • @RandomUser
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    43 days ago

    When I started there was lots of smoke 😀 it’s true that you can easily accumulate random stuff, but I still think it’s better to have spares of the things I use than risking running out and waiting for a delivery. Maybe I’m just disorganised.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 days ago

      These days I mostly apply it to passives. Especially small ones. 0201 are a pain to work with, liable to blow away if you look at them wrong. 0402s are better, but still easy to lose. But if I’m trying to keep size & weight down I tend to need the tiny parts, so it’s easier to design to use common values as much as possible and spend $30-40 for a reel of 10,000 of them. I doubt I’ll ever run out of 10kΩ resistors!

    • Nerb
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      13 days ago

      @RandomUser

      Oh I have spares, probably spares for the spares too. I seldom had smoke but do remember hooking electrolytic caps backwards a few times. The bang will get your attention.

      They do not smoke but I found if you plug an ATtiny85 backwards they will burn your hand when you attempt to remove them.