First breadboard project

[dlazzarini]

My very first ever breadboard attempt. I went for the Betty Boost. I’m guessing I’m guessing this was a bit ambitious. I’m about 3/4 of the way through the schematic and I could swear there was smoke coming from my left ear

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Ambitious? Ya think? A FuzzFace or RangeMaster might be a good warm-up project. The BB was really jumping into the deep end. Breadboarding is fun and will hone your troubleshooting skills. I think that blue jumper might be in the wrong slot.

Here's a tip when building something that complex. Build and test it incrementally. Get the 1st stage working, then add the 2nd stage, get the 1st & 2nd stages working together and keep adding on.

 

[~nick~]

i was thinking of buying that exact breadboard on amazon. would you rate it a decent amount of stars? i like how you seem to have added a control panel to it. unless that came with the breadboard. hope you post more updates!

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

See if you can get one that's horizontal. That one looks like all of the parts will fall right off. ?

Here's mine. Control panel is home-brew from an old aluminum shower rail. DC jack is hidden by one of the pots . This is big enough that I can have more than one project going at a time. I'm building up a Repro Fuzz on the far left.

 

[dlazzarini]

Ambitious? Ya think? A FuzzFace or RangeMaster might be a good warm-up project. The BB was really jumping into the deep end. Breadboarding is fun and will hone your troubleshooting skills. I think that blue jumper might be in the wrong slot.Op

Here's a tip when building something that complex. Build and test it incrementally. Get the 1st stage working, then add the 2nd stage, get the 1st & 2nd stages working together and keep adding on.

Lol. Probably more than just the blue jumper. I often tend to jump in the deep end and just thrash about a bit till I start swimming. Thanks for the advice Chuck, that does make more sense.

 

[dlazzarini]

i was thinking of buying that exact breadboard on amazon. would you rate it a decent amount of stars? i like how you seem to have added a control panel to it. unless that came with the breadboard. hope you post more updates!

Breadboard didn’t come with that. I whipped that up along with a break out box. Board seems ok though so far