Companies that do breadboarding?

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Just finished a design and Monday it's off to breadboarding. The usual, through-hole on Veroboard. Most likely we'll go with a local tech but, of course, that means some training plus ordering all the parts etc.

Question, more for future projects: Is there a reputable company that can turn a schematic into a breadboard? Ideally one that has a nice in-house stock of jelly-bean parts like opamps and so on. Most of mine are through-hole for the breadboard and then migrating to all-SMT for the layout.

Nico Coesel · Accepted Answer

Why not have a test PCB made? Routing a simple PCB (e.q. without theusual space constraints) takes less time than building a breadboard.-- Reply to nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.)Bedrijven en winkels vindt U op

Joerg · Answer

Most of the time we do but it does take longer. 1 day layout, 3 days fab somewhere else, 1 day stuffing yet somewhere else, x days for shipping around. Breadboarding a circuit with 100 parts on Vero takes a good tech less than a day.

The other reason is frequent changes that are required when you don't know all the parameters of peripherals during design. It's much easier to add this or that on Veroboard. Provided you left enough free space.

Tim Wescott · Answer

Three day fab?  You aren't going to the right places!These days I just use quick-turn houses.  I leave lots of ground plane for dead-bug construction, and sometimes I use it.  If you wanted to do this through-hole, you could just fill the empty spaces with holes on a 100-mil grid.-- Tim WescottWescott Design ServicesPosting from Google?  See "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" came out in April.See details at

Joerg · Answer

Had some bad luck recently with quick turn-arounds. Open vias etc.

Well, this one might require a whole lot of experimenting. Too much depends on external parameters we have no knowledge of yet. That's why I am thinking of getting a large board. Twin Industries makes some nice ones with ground plane and vias (through Mouser).

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