Introduction to Breadboard

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Lets begin..

What is Breadboard:
 A Breadboard or a Protoboard or Plug-board is a testing board used for testing of circuits before implementing them permanently on PCB. It is a simple plastic board which is wired from inside in a particular manner and you can test circuit comprising of IC's, resistors, capacitors and many other pin devices by just plugging it inside the holes provided. Breadboard are reusable, you can do as many implementations as you want. For those who never saw a breadboard before than check out the image below..

If you are not able to find this at your local store selling electronic component, order it online from radio shack.
Here is the link

Now if you got one and ready to start than go on reading..

                                                                                                                                                                      

  Whats inside a Breadboard:

A Breadboard has three sections. The top most section and the bottom most section are same and we will call it as "Source Bus". Our power supply through out the breadboard will be through these buses that's why they are termed as source bus. The middle section is were we are going to make all our connections like interfacing of circuits, microcontrollers and other IC's and all that stuff. So these buses are meant for components connections so we will call it as "Component Buses".

The image above is the interior look of breadboard. The buses are simple metal strips having a holding mechanism. Whenever you insert any component (resistor, IC, capacitor etc) in it, the holding mechanism grabs the leads of component and the bus get connected to the component. Another thing about breadboard is that if your circuit takes up very large space, then you can also join two breadboards together by inserting the slots into each other provided on the border of the board. So these are all the basics about breadboard

Now, in the next post we will go through making power supply on the board and will have a quick look at a simple circuit implementation. Also keep tuned to my blogs to discover more about electronics. Remember to comment or send me an email for any query at letslearnelectronics@gmail.com.
Thanks for the read and your interest in reading. Have a nice day... :)