Hoo wow that's some sticker shock. I recently bought some cheap boards for some students I'm working with and they're absolute rubbish - about £2 each for a hal

Hoo wow that's some sticker shock. I recently bought some cheap boards for some students I'm working with and they're absolute rubbish - about £2 each for a half size board. They're from Elegoo who make a lot of knock off Arduino-ware and are prominent on Amazon. The tracks are incredibly tight and I had trouble fitting their own Arduino Micro board into it. Nowadays the cost of getting a board spun up is so cheap, that I don't bother breadboarding much, usually it's just as a means to interface a bunch of breakouts using 0.1" headers. It's useful to keep a bunch of SMT adaptors in stock for testing random SOIC or DFN parts.