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Yeah, selling for $289. I’m guessing these aren’t cheap to make. At least $30 BOM, but since it’s small batch, might have even made the mistake of letting the B

Yeah, selling for $289. I’m guessing these aren’t cheap to make. At least $30 BOM, but since it’s small batch, might have even made the mistake of letting the BOM get up to $100. I’m not sure who the taget audience is. I want to impulse buy, but I’m not convinced yet that it would improve my workflow. The video shows a rats nest, but the first rule of breadboarding is to use wires that make it easy to trace. Worse, is now there’s one more layer to debug. My suspicion is that this is a tool that will be solid in a few iterations, and will eliminate many of the headaches breadboards add not mentioned in the video, namely parasitic capacitance and inductance. I am interested in what I could do with the thing based on the last part of the video though. Being able to trivially reroute signals in realtume could open up a lot of possibilities.

ansible 3y ago
This is a super-neat design, and I'm glad someone has made it. But I would never buy it, in part because of the cost. It is really neat though.
- type0 3y ago
  You need to tinker often for it to be useful. I find less and less usage for the breadboards when you can simulate most of the things in software and then put it on the prototype board in a neat package
- synecdoche 3y ago
  Which simulation software would you recommend?
  - ansible 3y ago
    I don't have a simulation software recommendation, though /u/type0 might. I would recommend just using an "expensive" prototype board, that costs maybe $20 USD, instead of over that costs $4. There are different levels of quality with regard to the little clips that grip the wires and components. The wires are really the least problem in experimenting with electronics.
  - a_rabid_squid 3y ago
    I actually love using Falstad, it's fairly simple which is great because usually I just want to look at the ideal behavior of things to get the circuit working before I worry about the exact characteristics of every part. This link will take you to that crosspoint switch demo. https://tinyurl.com/yr34sym6 https://tinyurl.com/yr34sym6 https://wokwi.com/ https://wokwi.com/ is great for simple, digital only stuff. https://fritzing.org/ https://fritzing.org/ will kind of lay out the PCB for you, but it's kind of a pain in the ass. Wokwi and Fritzing are more "Breadboard Simulators" than real circuit simulators, but they do have their place.

ansible 3y ago

This is a super-neat design, and I'm glad someone has made it. But I would never buy it, in part because of the cost. It is really neat though.

type0 3y ago
You need to tinker often for it to be useful. I find less and less usage for the breadboards when you can simulate most of the things in software and then put it on the prototype board in a neat package
synecdoche 3y ago
Which simulation software would you recommend?
- ansible 3y ago
  I don't have a simulation software recommendation, though /u/type0 might. I would recommend just using an "expensive" prototype board, that costs maybe $20 USD, instead of over that costs $4. There are different levels of quality with regard to the little clips that grip the wires and components. The wires are really the least problem in experimenting with electronics.
- a_rabid_squid 3y ago
  I actually love using Falstad, it's fairly simple which is great because usually I just want to look at the ideal behavior of things to get the circuit working before I worry about the exact characteristics of every part. This link will take you to that crosspoint switch demo. https://tinyurl.com/yr34sym6 https://tinyurl.com/yr34sym6 https://wokwi.com/ https://wokwi.com/ is great for simple, digital only stuff. https://fritzing.org/ https://fritzing.org/ will kind of lay out the PCB for you, but it's kind of a pain in the ass. Wokwi and Fritzing are more "Breadboard Simulators" than real circuit simulators, but they do have their place.