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He seems to enjoy wiring looms! Beautiful though they are, was 2013 before the era of ultra-cheap PCBs and Ki-CAD?
by rwmj 4y ago
He seems to enjoy wiring looms! Beautiful though they are, was 2013 before the era of ultra-cheap PCBs and Ki-CAD?
- djmips 4y agowiring looms is faster and easier for prototyping than making PCBs with KI-CAD. Maybe when the design is finished and you want to 'mass' produce something then go to the PCB.
- rwmj 4y agoReally? I've done my time doing wirewrap on complicated boards, and I would never want to go back to that. It takes days to do one of those boards and when you inevitably made a mistake, more days to find it. (Not that I'm saying you shouldn't do it, it's kind of meditative as a hobby.)
- hoosieree 4y agoI've done wire wrap (and unwrap). It is kind of meditative, unless you're rewrapping that connection for the 3rd time..
- charcircuit 4y agoIt's also faster easier and cheaper to use FPGAs instead.
- tyingq 4y agoNot a finished product, but I thought this active breadboard that uses crosspoint switch ICs as virtual jumpers was a neat idea: https://hackaday.io/project/180394-breadware https://hackaday.io/project/180394-breadware