{"id":200,"date":"2018-09-20T13:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:58:39","slug":"prototyping-board-glossary-entry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/glossary-2\/prototyping-board-glossary-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Prototyping Board (Glossary Entry)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-201 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2018\/09\/PrototypingBoard-394x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2018\/09\/PrototypingBoard-394x1024.png 394w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2018\/09\/PrototypingBoard-115x300.png 115w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2018\/09\/PrototypingBoard-260x675.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2018\/09\/PrototypingBoard-160x416.png 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2018\/09\/PrototypingBoard.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electronic Prototyping Board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A prototyping board, or breadboard as it is sometimes known, it a useful piece of equipment used in early stages of electronic design.\u00a0The sockets are designed to allow compatible components to be inserted with gentle pressure, and connected by hidden copper connectors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The main prototyping area is organized into columns (A-J in the image opposite).<\/li>\n<li>For the columns A-E, all sockets in each row are connected by a strip of conductive metal.\u00a0The same is true for columns F-J.<\/li>\n<li>The centre channel is spaced such that the centre-most columns are spaced to host an DIP\u00a0form-factor integrated circuit.<\/li>\n<li>8 vertical metal conductors back the 8 independent power rails (adjacent to the red and blue lines) running vertically.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A prototyping board, or breadboard as it is sometimes known, it a useful piece of equipment used in early stages of electronic design.\u00a0The sockets are designed to allow compatible components to be inserted with gentle pressure, and connected by hidden copper connectors. The main prototyping area is organized into columns (A-J in the image&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/glossary-2\/prototyping-board-glossary-entry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prototyping Board (Glossary Entry)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":153,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions\/202"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/embedded-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}