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This project predates easy and cheap PCB creation.

• alar44 5y ago
  No it doesn't. It's been possible to make homemade PCBs for decades. Even then, they could have at least used perfboard. No idea why someone would want to do it that way. That was fine for the 1920s, but there's no excuse for such poor construction these days.
  • aliswe 5y ago
    from the website: > Things have been made much easier by putting the most complicated electronics on a PCB. maybe it looks like this nowadays? http://www.simandl.cz/stranky/elektro/ronja/ronja.htm http://www.simandl.cz/stranky/elektro/ronja/ronja.htm
  • okl 5y ago
    To the contrary. That is how hams wire up their circuits when using throughhole components. Look here: https://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/getting-ugly-dead-bugs-and-going-to-manhattan/ https://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/getting-ugly-dead-bugs-and-g...
    • alar44 5y ago
      Some do, but it's stupid. There's no reason to do it that way other than laziness. And even that's the wrong word as that's much more difficult than using a board.
      • buescher 5y ago
        You don't get a ground plane with perfboard, unless you submit yourself to the pain of working with vectorboard, and perfboard construction is inherently more fragile than dead bug. If you get good at dead bug construction, you can make changes and do experiments as easily as with a solderless breadboard.
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  • rasz 5y ago
    This is running at RF frequencies, no you cant use perf board for that.