/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1636753

When using that type of board, you usually have to cut some traces and add some jumpers. Optimized layout can make a huge difference in the number of each, and a nice program that allows you to drag components around while it updates those would be a godsend, and I believe the programs exist. But I'm an old-fashioned linux nerd so I use GIMP and do it the hard way, but it's still fun when everything falls into place.

In this pic, all the vertical lines are traces on the board. The orange horizontal lines are cut traces. The only jumper wires are the horizontal non-orange lines.

Something like adding a female header to the side of an integrated circuit or somethng like an arduino nano is extremely easy; you cut some traces but otherwise you just solder the chip and headers and they are linked.