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Why not a breadboard? Wire wrapping seems pretty tedious.
by jmtulloss 17y ago
Why not a breadboard? Wire wrapping seems pretty tedious.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoI wire-wrapped my first computer. It's not that tedious, it beats the hell out of soldering when you're doing your first design, and if you make a mistake it's easy to fix. When I then made modifications I used red wire instead of blue. If it didn't work I knew which wires to replace. If it did I could either leave it and use yellow as the next red, or I could replace the wires. At a glance I could see the state of the build. A good wire-wrapping tool, good flow with the circuit, I could put three wires every minute for an hour. I may still have it somewhere ...
- jmtulloss 17y agoYou could do the same things with a breadboard, without the tedious wrapping. At UIUC, one of the assignments for a required course in the Computer Engineering department is to build a (simple) 4-bit processor. We only got a week to do it, so you can be damn sure we used a breadboard and had a system in place to debug the thousands of wires.
- aswanson 17y agoUIUC is the truth. If they require you to do a project like that in order to graduate, they have a good grasp on what a CE needs to understand. Wish I would have went there.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoJust curious - have you done both? I have, and my preference falls to wire-wraping. I'd be interested to hear an alternative opinion from someone who's done both.