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In the Lab – Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (tomverbeure.github.io)
simojo 2 hours ago [-]
This is orders of magnitude more complicated and risk prone than wire wrapping due to the possibility of cold joints, but as I understand it, this look is what people dig these days (just watch any EE youtuber). I too used to think that soldering on porto board was a great way to go about prototyping sans SBB, but you can't ignore the bomber connections that wire wrapping gives you.
Animats 1 hours ago [-]
Most people today use Kynar hook-up wire for this sort of thing. Even WalMart stocks it.
ranger_danger 3 hours ago [-]
When we had to bypass the onboard UARTs: https://0x0.st/PbKT.jpg
omgtehlion 4 minutes ago [-]
This pic is quite unsettling, I didn't understand why at first, but this blue wire pinched under the bolt...
tylerflick 2 hours ago [-]
Is this really easier to work with than bodge wire (wire wrap)? Asking because I still have a few rolls and would rather not waste money.
rasz 1 days ago [-]
I have a good example - Piotr Grzesik's prototype of 486 SBC recently covered on Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/m8sbc-86-is-an-fpga-based-ki... and HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578601

https://imgur.com/gallery/486-homebrew-computer-lsUiWdw#dIBt...

Looks like something that shouldnt work at all :)

jacquesm 2 hours ago [-]
Indeed, by rights that shouldn't work. But it does and he threw in an ISA bus just for the heck of it and that works too. And all of this at a very respectable clock speed. Mad props.
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