Breadboarding tips

Hi Ben, could you consider adding this video as the first one of the playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2565dvjafglHU ?

Not too dissimilar from my technique but still found a number of tips helpful... thanks. Although time consuming, I do find the effort of making a breadboard circuit look tidy oddly therapeutic.

Ben..Thanks for the video. The 3-hole and 6-hole rules were probably the most useful tip I got out of this. Have you considered adding a serial interface to the 6502 with the W65C51N chip? Lots of possibilities once that is added to the 6502.

This was great! I am glad that I saw this after I had to figure it out myself, but this video could have saved me a ton of wiring lost from trial and error. Thanks Ben!

For the short power and ground wires, I cheat. Jameco sells preformed black and red jumper wires at 0.3" and 0.4" lengths.

If you strip a little too much off one end, you can slide the insulation over so it still looks nice. I've also used needlenose pliers to dress/straighten out any ends that are ugly because of dull cutters.

I need to get some 22 gage wire; I have been using wires from boxes of different size jumper wires, but being able to make exact ( or close to exact) sized wires would be helpful. And I am planning on making more permanent circuits with prototyping boards, like my clock circuit with a 558 timer. And a an learning to design pcbs for projects that I think I have nailed down

Hi! Around 11:20, you cut the legs of a LED without letting one longer than the other. Wouldn't it be better to still be able to differentiate them in case of disassembly in order to reuse it easily? Thanks for the video!

Genuinely love your content and imho your 6502 system (or even better your 8bit system) should be published in book form and adopted as standard CS curriculum.

Also where do you source the busboard bread boards? I ordered directly from BusBoard here in Canada ; I wish there was something more in between crap and premium quality.

The steps for cutting wire to length are perfect. A small point might be that order sorta matters. As cutting a wire and then stripping it on both ends doesn't work so well, unless you bend the first end after stripping; been there done that :-)

The video states that there’s information on the tools that you use at https://eater.net/breadboard but I don’t see anything about tools (yet) at that link. Anyway, I suggest including links somewhere for how to purchase the tools, You linked the wire strippers from a prior video and after getting them I agree they are much better than what I was previously trying to use... mostly because it’s easy to see exactly where they will cut into the wire.

Woo-hoo! Looking forward to watching.

Thank you, I had been looking forward to this video for a while. I would add a comment about the size of the center (IC) channel when measuring wires. I have also found that this 3d printed tool https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3862775 can make it easier for students who don't have a well-calibrated eye.