I used cat6 wire, i made my first drone on a perf board. It all worked but it was a hot mess for a first timer. Esp32s3, mpu6050, npn controlled motors, and 3.7v step up 5v 2amp. Its to heavy for my little propellers, so i have to start over and try again. It will fly with bigger propellers. I poated a few videos. Just trying to learn more techniques to clean up my soldering skills
@paulwilliamson59853 жыл бұрын
Color-coded by length isn’t ideal. You want to assign the color codes based on the signal types, and/or use them rainbow-style to keep adjacent wires easy to distinguish. Just get bulk wire in multiple colors and strip to length. If you can scrounge up a few meters of old-school 50-pair telephone cable, you’ll be set for hookup wire for a long time.
@svdworkis3 жыл бұрын
I love having the pre-stripped lengths. I do wish these products came pre-sorted, my OCD had me sorting them by hand. I agree with the other commenter that color coding by length has its shortcomings but it certainly helps for sorting, which is important for understanding when you are running low on popular lengths
@AdityaMehendale3 жыл бұрын
Please don't perma-proto with solid-core wires made for breadboarding - these are notoriously easy to dry-solder, and a nightmare to debug. Their months (years?) of stripped-naked tips oxidize over time, and soldered connections are unreliable. Breadboards are unaffected, as the insertion into the breadboard tends to clean the tips locally. The solid cores also make compact soldering impossible, and the heat-conduction melts off the jacket, more so than on multi-core wires, making shorts from molten (melted?) insulation all the more likely. Solid-core for breadboarding, freshly stripped and tinned multi-core or wire-wrap for everything else. If you are feeling adventurous, try "RoadRunner", maybe.
@jackmarshall249610 ай бұрын
It's perfectly fine soldering with single core wire provided you are careful to ensure that it is properly tined and use plenty of flux. More heat is generally required which is a disadvantage as well as not acting well under strain, the joint cn be brittle but not if you leave it alone. There are clear disadvantages to using this wire i agree but its not like its taboo or anything. Simple wire antennas and coax are often soldered and these are also solid core its not preferred but it does have its uses and is often soldered. In saying that if you're worried about bad connections you shouldn't be using breadboard in the first place. Debugging bad rails is way more annoying than finding a bad solder joint.
@dlsjunk3 жыл бұрын
I love breadboards. Great way to learn how basic blocks work and tie them together into something more complex. But if the breadboard is your only documentation, the electro-gods are just waiting to smite thee. Draw a schematic. Build from the schematic. Make a change? Change the schematic. It doesn't have to be a MIL-SPEC ABCDE level drawing. Boxes with pin numbers and lines will do. Have fun and may your magic smoke stay contained.
@jackmarshall249610 ай бұрын
Just use perf board from the get-go and leave your wires ling enough that they're easily resolderable. Breadboards are prone to broken connections. When I HAD to use them for particular projects in university, it took longer debugging crappy connections than it would have to just solder it. Rails become loose after minimal use, especially with multiple components or wires plugged into the same row. I can't disagree with you more. breadboards, especially in industry, are a complete waste of time. So much so that my boss has literally banned them from use in prototyping our designs.
@adastraedu10 ай бұрын
The reason to do it neatly is to avoid debugging problems on a complex board. Those long loopy wires are horrible practice, because one pinky pulls something out and it's a debugging nightmare. Cutting and stripping wire is even better. I don't particularly like the precut lengths, but anything is better than the first rat's nest.
@jackmarshall249610 ай бұрын
Or just don't use breadboards and solder the circuit to perf board or strip board from the get-go. By the time you've planned, placed and neatly sized your wires, you could have just build it on perf board. Yes placement is more permanent unless you're using sockets. Seriously though, soldering each connection doesn't take longer than a few seconds. If I make a mistake, wick and move the connection, again only takes a few seconds I don't understand why people still use these things, they aren't reliable enough IMO
@anonymousadam89507 ай бұрын
@@jackmarshall2496 in my opinion, bread boards are good for beginners and quick/temporary circuits. Of course a soldered connection is the best connection but the breadboard helps get the jist of a circuit (among other things). For example, you could be making a circuit where you need to swap out components quickly such as a 555 timer circuit, it would be much easier to pull out and put in resistors than desoldering and soldering.
@carriecorreaArtist Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video
@170makes3 жыл бұрын
I totally agree. Btw. what kit do you recommend that contains some perf boards and some components? I want to get into electronics but the kits aren't very inclusive
@JarppaGuru6 ай бұрын
1:20 so whats better. you use solid wire and need fix that. and we allready use solid wire. i though again this was some new, but it was old. we allready doing that decades
@calebw2373 жыл бұрын
What is that microcontroller you are using at 2:06? It looks nice because it has extra space on the sides for connecting to a breadboard
@alantrevennor72572 жыл бұрын
That is a Particle Photon. Particle do a large range of MCUs which IMO are very underrated. They are pretty much like an 8266 but they use ARM processors. I started out on those, but have begun using 8266 boards for grunt work cos of their cheapness. But Particle boards -although more expensive come with all kinds of stuff built in that you have to add on to 8266s. For example there's an internet based secure messaging system which works out of the box - plus a number of other goodies like OTA programming without any add-ons. Well worth a look.
@taranagnew4362 жыл бұрын
Can the solid core wires be used in place of soldering?
@Hoptronics Жыл бұрын
Sure but it will be less reliable as the electrical connections are all mechanical. Also it will be more prone to noise and interference. This is why moving to a perforated breadboard and soldering components is preferred for prototypes. After a prototype, to go into production a real pcb is usually desired for simplicity, reliability, less noise and ease of assembly.
@jackmarshall249610 ай бұрын
@@HoptronicsI don't know if that's correct single core wire is used in transmission lines as opposed to multicore. Its also preferred for use in wire antennas, even pcb traces are effectively single core. The major disadvantage is brittle connections that don't stand up to strain well, if a wire can be moved its best to make it multicore but its fine if its inside a case and never touched.