Nobody in my town has breadboards, so these have to do until I get one from the net. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I get the idea of how to use one, but I'm hoping to find a short tutorial on the basics of using it. I know they're cheap, so I can screw one up and it's a non-issue, but I'd like to avoid that if possible :)
If you know of a link, that'd be great. I didn't find too much from a Google search.
The perfboards can be wired together either using the extra leads of your components, or with short jumpers. I like stranded jumper wire (finer wire seems to soak up solder easier), but solid core works too. The way this would work is that you place your components and try to bend the leads so that they touch the component they’re supposed to connect to. If it doesn’t reach, or you need multiple connectors, you can place some jumpers across the bottom of your board. If you want to connect a whole strip of holes together, you can strip a short length of stranded wire bare and lay it across the pins you need connected, then put down some solder to join it all together.
