Has anyone used stripboard or pc boards before?
There seems to be a variety of stripboards. Ones which have all the pads seperated (referred to as pc boards?) and ones which are connected in lines to cut. I guess there are some assumptions on how you would use them? Anyone have any ideas or experience which to use or why to use one vs the other?
Thanks :)
**I am sick of Free-Forming. **
I am sick of Free-Forming. I thought it would be cool to use jewlery techniques to create a motor controller. I’m a lousey jewler - the concept seemed neat (small footprint, no perfboard, no wires, and fashionable to wear !). Can you imagine? “Yes, thank you - i love my bracelet too - you know, plugged into my robot, it will sink 40 amps continuously without overheating” - but I have reached the conclusion that “I am a lousey Jewler”. So its time to move on to PCB echant kit, strip board, or pc board… To see what I can muck up next 
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The one with the pads seperated is just a different type of “free forming” (in my opinion).
I recommend the ones with the tracks. If you can’t get a track cutter, use a 5mm drill bit.
These are great, because you can place all your components and get your layout sorted out BEFORE you cut tracks or solder anything.
Make sure you get 100 thou or 0.1in (imperial) spacing and not 2.5mm (metric).
(Wait for some smart ■■■■ to tell me there’s no such thing as 2.5mm spaced strip board.)
I’ve been trying to find a
I’ve been trying to find a place to buy stripboard. The only boards they have at Radio Shack and my nearby electronics shop are… the other kind, with none of the holes connected (or at most, just a few strips connected to act as power rails). I’ve always heard them called perfboard, but that might technically refer to the ones that have no copper at all.
Anyway, stripboard seems like a great middle ground between perfboard, where you have to make all the connections yourself, and custom etched PCBs, which sound like a lot of work in their own right. If anyone knows of an online shop that carries stripboard, I’d like to hear about it.
Dan
