Make your own strip-board breakout boards
A useful trick for Makers In this article you'll see when you should build your own breakout boards, and you'll learn a useful trick to use when making them. Breakout boards rock Digital Makers can often make projects faster by using breakout boards. A breakout board is a small but useful module that you can use to compose your project. There are hundreds of breakout boards available. Many are based on tiny SMD chips that are tricky to solder. You can save time and reduce the risk of mistakes by buying a ready-made breakout board. Here's an Adafruit breakout board I used in the Raspberry Pi version of Lazydoro. Of course, you can only buy a ready-made board if you can find one that does what you need, If there isn't, consider making one! Why bother with self-built breakouts? Why not just put everything you need on the main project board? There are advantages to a design that uses pluggable modules. You can usually test the module on its own, and th...