/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1508326
Depends. If I'm just testing shit breadboard, I use mostly through hole parts because of this since SMD doesn't easily lend itself to prototyping without a metric fuck ton of breakout boards lying around and at $1-4 a board those costs add up when you need a lot of them.

For more permanent but not too serious stuff I use protoboard like in your pic. The ones that have buses like on the breadboard are nice but they're relatively expensive so I don't have many on hand. The cheap ones with holes are okay, I usually make connections with component legs. People say to use solder bridges to connect pads but I can never seem to do this right which is not helped by the soldermask.

For any project I want to look nice or that doesn't lend itself well to breadboard due to high voltages or parasitics or whatever I'll get a PCB made.

I wanna try out Manhattan construction but I don't have any plain copper boards and they aren't cheap either.

>>1495367
It generally works better with THT parts