The Stickvise has been a staple of the Hackaday community for a while now. If you need something held for soldering there’s no better low-cost helping hand. But if you’re just using a breadboard and a dev board of some sort, there’s another vice on the horizon that uses similar spring clamping to hold everything in place while you build something awesome.
While [Pat]’s inspiration came from the aforementioned Stickvise, the new 3d-printed vice is just what you’ll need before you’re ready to do the soldering. The vice is spring-loaded using rubber bands. The base is sized to fit a standard breadboard in the center with clamping arms on either side to hold dev boards such as an Arduino. This innovative yet simple de”vice” grips boards well enough that you won’t be chasing them around your desk, knocking wires out of place, anymore.
There are some nuances to this board, so be sure to check out the video below to see it in action. As we mentioned, it uses rubber bands instead of springs to keep it simple, and it has some shapes that are easily 3d printed such as the triangular rails. If you want to 3d print your own, the files you’ll need are available on the project’s site. If you want to get even simpler, we’ve seen a few other vices around here as well.
The Stickvise is available for sale in the Hackaday Store.
A clean solution, nice. I think I might make one.
I like it! This way you can have multiple projects “kept together” without loosing them nor getting parts entangled as you switch from one project to another (as we all have more than one going on at one time).
Briefly, and only because it’s first thing on a workday and it’ll drive me nuts (I’m sorry), that is not a “vice,” that is a “vise.”
What if your vise is your vice?
(Although all joking aside, the ‘vise’ thing is a peculiarity of American English and does not tend to be elsewhere… see http://grammarist.com/spelling/vice-vise/ for reference)
Cheers
Vis-a-vis
I’ve always used vice spelling. Not sure why as I was born American and have only been to Canada, no other countries.
Then you’re spelling it wrong too :)
This being an American blog and this post being about an American’s project, “vise” is the correct spelling.
Heck, Pat even spells it correctly in “Stickvise” and the title of the YouTube video.
Hackaday: editing is not a crime!
@Word Bitch: “This being an American blog”: ???????? parochial…
Dat vintage keyboard!
Miami Vice
Nice job!! :D!
Rs component piease
Breadboards are used for circuit prototyping and are a non-permanent way of hooking things up. You can use them with through-hole components, small solid-core wires, and breakout boards with male headers or pins with 0.