Neatness counts! Anecdote: Too many decades ago, I was blessed with the best lab partner in a "Digital Ccts" course. Dave spent his free time "neat-i-fying" our breadboard (a digital volt meter) with custom length, colour coded jumpers (while I focussed on the write-ups.) At the end of the course, the instructor sheepishly approached us with his "woven" rat's nest version, saying, "You guys will have to tear-down a board, returning each of its component to the lab's inventory... Would you swap this one for yours for me to use as a teaching aid for next year's class?... Please...." I imagine Dave's work of art might be still on display at that institute!! Good times! Thanks for rekindling those memories!

You should patent this and get someone to distribute it in stores. It's a genius invention!

It is not only the mess. I built a fuzz pedal to a breadboard and use long jumper wires that are dangling all over the place. Fuzz works, but due to stray capacitances and inductances, it also plays some Asian radio 😂

Perfection. And here I am using staples like a heathen.

This looks really useful! Ever since I saw Ben Eater's video, I've been making my own jumpers. I've gotten good enough to eyeball the length for bus-to-board jumpers. Regarding the problem with insulation on short jumpers - I strip and bend one lead first, and that keeps the insulation in place and makes it a little bit easier to grip the wire when stripping the other end.

Genius! What a fantastic solution. This video should have more views.

All the really clever things seem simple once someone has designed them.

This is awesome, I've been making these manually by eye for ages and they're never quite the right length. This print is going to come in super useful!

Absolutely Brilliant! After testing, one can go straight to a prototype on a perf board with precut wires.

This is brilliant! Nice job! I've downloaded the STL file and can't wait to print it!

So simple and such a clever solution. Thank you for sharing.

My son in law printed one for me. Awesome thingy.. tnx for sharing

Great tool! I made one immediately after watching your video. Rewatched the video with the tool in hand and it works great. Thanks 😅

This is a brilliant tool that you came up with. I'll definitely be printing one for myself (and maybe a few for the local library-based maker space). I think I'll play around with a layer-based color change to make the slot divisions easier to see. Thanx for releasing the STL for free. (I probably would have bought one if you were only selling them, but the library would have missed out on the donation.)

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing the design of this awesome tool!

Got one made and watched again and yes, it works just like the man says. VERY useful. Thank you.

What an elegant solution! I'm going get one of these printed 😃

Very well thought out and executed. Thank you.

I always wanted some kind of tool to use with the jumper wires. Never took the time to develop it. But you did! It works great! thank you!

excellent tool and vid. Grabbed the stl and will use it to teach my daughter more about breadboarding for her robotics.

This is going to make me a breadboarding God!

Well this is certainly easier than my tried and tested (through school, university and many hobby projects) method of marking the correct length in the insulation by using my nails

That is pretty cool tool! Great idea! 👍 Usually, on bigger projects, I run out of jumpers needed size and I have multiple of these jumper wire boxes.. 😂

I was going to design this - and you saved me the trouble. Thanks Brett, good job!

Innovative and amazing tool! 😃

Thank you for making this very useful tool and sharing it. And thank you for making a user guide video for it. I'm inspired to be like you one day...❤

Simply marvelous!

Very cool! Thank you for sharing.

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

I absolutely love this. Ill 3D print my own version using my Knipex "stripper gun thing™". But the basic idea is wonderful. Great work.

I am surprised why a lot of people won’t wire their breadboard like this. I still take joy in carefully breadboarding my some prototypes. It is fun and it creates a detail map in your mind of the hardware as well.

Actually legendary bro!

Very nice idea, well done !

I love this. Thank you.

Pretty smart, really worth printing

Thank you for sharing.

Great design mate

I liked the video so much that I not only gave a thumbs up, but I subscribed too. I even had this device on the printer before the video even ended. 😃

Dunno why this is surfacing now, but this is a great idea. I so often fall back on the bendy jumpers because they're less work than re-aligning stuff so that my limited supply of pre-cut jumpers, but then I end up with a rat's nest board that is impossible to debug or modify... I'm sure there's a bit of practice needed before getting up to speed, but it looks like once up to speed it's not much longer than searching the pre-cuts for the right size, and the results look worth it. Maybe a future version that automatically measures, cuts, and strips?

Lovely system.

Thank you for STL! 👍🖐

In 1972 I built a DIGITAL POLYPHASE WATTMETER, on breadboard.for my BSEE senior project. It was Kick A$$ good, but lotsa breadboarding, and your device wouldhave been a GodSend. By the way, 120V, 230V, 460Volts, and 5A, 10A, 20A, 40A and 80 Amps all measured out of a 15 amp, 120Volt classroom wall receptacle. I got one measurement to lie, and 15 others to swear to it! With 0.25% accuracy, ACED THE SENIOR PROJECT, and GRADUATED with honors. (120 watts to 64000 watts full scale from a wall outlet) It was FUN!

Nice! I think I need that and thx for making that unique tool.

Downloaded. Thanks.

The majority of Electro-Jox, Sparkies, etc. worth their weight, are somewhat OCD, or super neat, and all that. Great vid, thanks mate. . ; )

Thank you. That's helpful.

Bend and Snap, works Everytime!

Triangle thingy downloaded and printet - thank you for sharing!

Hey Brett. Great video. Could we get more?

Awesome stuff, Brett! Subbed.

Brilliant!

My local library printed me one from your design. Thanks very much.

Love this! I came across this video because I thought of making a ruler from some thick paper and laminate it (don’t own a 3D-printer … yet 😅). Would be nice to have a way to measure between two spots directly on the breadboard how long the wire needed to be, for when you don’t yet know the length. I’ve also needed to make wires with 90 degrees corners around the board, and this was pretty tedious to measure.

Lovely! Good job - subscribed!👍😀

Late comer here. Downloaded the .STL file, sent it to PCBWay 3D Print. Got it in the mail yesterday. (All five of them). They came out superbly. Watched your awesome video 8 times with template in hand. Works like a charm. It's great that you expanded on Ben's tips and tricks. This will come in very handy. Now, where do I send the "Buy me a coffee/beer"? -d

Brilliant

I like the length jig. But the stripping can be accomplished much faster with a stripper that auto sizes to the wire diameter, and has an adjustable end stop for length. These are widely available with either side entry or front entry into the jaws, and not very expensive.

A super-neat board is a thing of beauty. So is a fine oil painting, and I'm crap at that as well.....

VERY clever!

Nice, I imagine I'll be printing out one of these soon. I like to use wires out of solid core Ethernet cables for breadboarding. They're easy to tuck into tight spaces and you get 8 color/pattern combinations

Es GENIAL !!! Gracias !!!

At 5:05 I use hot tweezer strippers - they can strip even down to less than a millimeter of remaining insulation if you need it. Very quick and easy to use. Your follow up method of stripping just the remaining insulation and sliding it into place works too. I do that sometimes, but with hot strippers there is no need for that, every wire is stripped using the same technique, so your muscle memory kicks in and you "whip out" wires cut to fit so quickly you don't even remember doing them.

Take my money! Oh, it's free. Take my admiration and thanks.

super! Thanks

That is a genius tool. Wish I had a 3D printer.

I clicked on this to find out why this video is 10 minutes long.

someone who has been breadboarding since the early 80's i can appreciate the neatness but this is a breadboard and alot of times you need to move jumpers, if they are precut then you need to make more. this is a prototype so neatness isnt a factor, its about making the circuit work. the simplest way is to have a spool of 22 ga and just cut what you need, its quicker, you can tidy up the final later.

That’s a neat tool, thanks. I was thinking someone might like to make an STL for an IC straightener (I don’t have a printer yet, it’s on my to buy list)

0:52 yep, ben eater (:

You said Ben eater. So your video came into my feed.

Whenever I see videos like this I'm very skeptical, because the title sounds a bit like clickbait. This however delivers on the promise. And it appears to be a handy tool, indeed.

That's very neat. Pity I don't have a 3D printer. But I think I might have an idea to make something similar..

Nice video and tool. I myself only use white wire. It is just cheaper to get a large spool of one color wire (usually that tough Teflon jacket type) than having 10 color spools (the decade colors) or those handy multicolor wire packs. I am going to make a tool based on the Arduino UNO. It will use a stepper motor and pinch wheels to eject and cut a piece of wire to any length based on a keypad entry. Say I need a need a "5-er" (what I call a 5 hole long wire), I simply press 5 and then # on the keypad and a prefect length wire is dispensed. Then I just strip it using hot strippers and just bend the ends by hand. If I need the same length again, I just press # to dispense the same as the last length. I could actually make an auto stripper and even auto bender on it, but that would be a bit elaborate... maybe on a delux model, but at least a length dispenser would be helpful. Let me know... I will post a video. In military protoryping (where I picked up my techniques), we usually use white Teflon jacketed wire for all of our connections. Colors help, but the electrons don't care. In deliverable electronics, the wires are marked with their unique wire number (on a marking/dispensing machine) so they can be indentifed in a harness/bundle if needed. The idea is: Wiring done right very rarely fails, so using one color of high quality wire is all you need, as "buzzing" out failed harnesses are usually done by removing the connectors at both ends and checking each pin... color doesn’t really help... especially in harness with 100's of wires... having multicolor wires with stripes on them - the permutations of wire colors is just not practical and is very expensive. I am surprised the automotive industry does not go the military way... they try to save a penny at every step.

Nice

Fussy but brilliant. The color-coding alone would make it worth the effort for breadboards that see a lot of changes to a base circuit, like benchtop robots and guitar pedal experiments.

Great idea. Any update to that template? Where you bought that wire strippers?

Man I wish I'd found this before building Ben's 8-bit CPU...

Wondered where to buy one like this??? Looks easy and clean looking breadboard jumper setup

That's very useful! Thank you! Would you also add the source file, not just the STL, so we can more easily improve it/work on it, please? Btw does it also work with the type of wire strippers that grab the wire in two places and pull on opposite sides?

Nice. Is this pla or tpu?

Great tool. But mine would have to be aluminum. I use hot tweezer strippers as they require almost no pulling force to strip off the insulation.

neat

Could perhaps use some mm thin rod and a 1.5 tube and make a telescopic jumper 😅

Where can I buy one.

I'd love to see a simpler form of the print where you stick the wire through a hole and then the lengths spiral out in a curve.

Nice idea but I'd like to be able to make those wires that go round a chip to connect a pin on one side to a pin on the other more neatly too. Like the one you need to connect pin 2 to pin 6 of a 555.

How can I get one of these tools without a 3D printer?

That's awesome. Could you share qhere you bought thia box with solid copper PVC insulated wires?

Nice tool. Amazon link?

I'm about to order this from a 3d printer but am wondering what best material to use when printing?

I would like to print one. Could you supply the stl or gcode files somewhere, for example thingiverse?

All i ever wanted was to know how to find this solid wires... all i get are those that are a thread of thinner soft wires...

I checked Amazon... I don't see any wire jumper jig like yours. Like I asked, where get that???

I myself buy 1mm solid copper wire and do my things with those.

i don't have a 3d printer any chance i can purchase a bread board jumper template?

What is the link to this file? The link is cut off in the description. Looks useful!

Grrat design, you should sell them, for people like me with no 3d printer... I would buy it...

I use one of the cheap black ones that look like the 300 dollar knipex ones haha. They last about 2 years but then are only good for thicker wires. 11 dollars a pair. The brand is 'knoweasy"..... horrible name but after they wont strip the 24+ they're good for the tool box and last years for household stuff. Never buy knipex side cutters, the blades tend to explode and im now caught in a cycle where i keep ordering the same pair and sending back the broken ones haha

Could probably integrate a hobby blade or similar into the design so it's an all-in-one solution. I personally have DuPont/header style wire crimps with ends in addition to the previously mentioned pre-stripped wires, covers bases. If I need to reach that odd length I usually couple two jumper wires together or just deal with a bent wire... it's just a prototype board after all. Save the neat layout for the PCB.

It's a so-called Brettboard