[Adam Wolf] sent along this great tip for transporting projects. He chopped out the center section of a tackle box clearing the way for two breadboards to be stuck to the lid. The boards are spaced for a DIP40 chip. Two binding post are epoxied in place to provide power. Now you can move your projects and parts without knocking wires loose. More details at his blog.
Ok did anyone else think when they saw that it was talking about a Star Trek Trasporter?
Oh well, good idea though.
Posted at 5:46 pm on Oct 21st, 2005 by Hal Hockersmtih
Excellent idea although I’m not completely sold on the implementation (the bottom of the box sitting up in the air would get in the way), fitting into the tackle case is nice though. There’s probably nothing more annoying than a hookup wire coming loose and the mad scramble that follows trying to figure out why the hell your project isn’t working anymore.
Posted at 6:21 pm on Oct 21st, 2005 by notb4dinner
If you follow the photoset, the lid comes off, fixing the whole “box sticking up issue.”
You can see it here:
thats not safe dremeling
Posted at 7:18 pm on Oct 21st, 2005 by ryan
http://static.flickr.com/32/53840787_897b785030.jpg
Awww. Geeks in love.
Also, this is a good idea. I mostly use breadboards to test guitar effect circuits, and things have a tendency to get messed up en route between various locations. I might just try this, or something similar.
Posted at 7:34 pm on Oct 21st, 2005 by peptidefarmer
crotch + spinning rotary tool……yeah not a fun night
unless your into that, im not judging.
Posted at 9:06 pm on Oct 21st, 2005 by Orwell84
I did something similar, I used 3 830pt solderless breadboards, and used their adhesive backs to interlock them on a clipboard. Its good to hold circuit diagrams and it makes me look geeky
Posted at 11:18 pm on Oct 21st, 2005 by sean s
color image ?!
no tape at corners effect ?
Posted at 2:51 am on Oct 22nd, 2005 by jaguarrrr
If you install the board inside the space you dremeled out you could still use the storage compartments.
…unless of course you can get away with the the board being upside-down.
Posted at 8:40 am on Oct 22nd, 2005 by strider_mt2k
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Nice :-) Ages ago I build my own speech board using a bread board like above (connected to my homebrew I/O port, connected to my tweaked ZX Spectrum). One of the problems was that now and then a connection wire didn’t make a good connection. So I could have used a box like this.
OTOH, the funniest thing was when the speech chip started to talk based on noisy input:
Bleeehbalwelllduudaawaaah.
Posted at 5:46 pm on Oct 21st, 2005 by John Bokma