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BREADBOARD

1. A thin plastic board used to hold electronic components (transistors, resistors, chips, etc.) Used to develop prototypes of electronic circuits, breadboards can be reused for future jobs. 

2. There are two major types of breadboards; these are solder and solderless boards.

3. Solder boards are boards you have to solder components onto (per the name).

4. These are most of your standard circuit boards, and if you flip one over you’ll notice that all of the connections are soldered to the board itself.

5. Solderless breadboards are the ones we’ve been focusing on.

6. They make it easy to add or take off components as needed, and make circuit trial-and-error a lot easier. Both types of boards can be large, small.

7. The components that work with a breadboard are plentiful too! Resistors, potentiometers, capacitors, inductors, diodes, LEDs, transistors, MOSFETs, thermistors, photocell, buzzers, push buttons, and a whole lot more.