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Show HN: Breadboard – Figma for Breadboard Hackers
A few weeks ago, I got into the rabbit hole of creating neatly wired breadboards.
I got sick of spaghetti wiring and unstable connections when I wired an esp32 based lora node and carried it around the block for reception tests.
I thought of using pre-cut jumper kits laying around and planning the wiring ahead of time so I could have neater wiring. I also wanted to share the wiring with fellow hardware hacking enthusiasts in my local hackerspace.
First I tried a square-grid paper, then moved to Figma and after not too long I remembered we can create web apps quickly in the age of AI.
And that's more or less the story. Here's the repo for the folks interested in: https://github.com/safaorhan/breadboard https://github.com/safaorhan/breadboard
Feel free to open issues for feature requests :)
- theilgaz 4mo agoLove this. The paper → Figma → "wait, I can just build the app" pipeline is peak engineer brain. Clean execution too! Nicely done Safa.
- safaorhan 4mo agoThanks, I tend to overengineer simple things
- abdullahsahin 4mo agoI think this is the new era for the simulation. It’s nice to be able to test it here now instead of normally working on a breadboard. Thanks.
- safaorhan 4mo agoThis is for more like laying out and planning the wiring, for circuit simulation there are great tools available
- ubeydgencer 4mo agoThis is a lifesaver for rapid prototyping. The 'spaghetti' struggle is real when working with microcontrollers. Awesome job putting this together, the execution and UI are super clean.