ElectroCookie PCB Prototype Board, Snappable Strip Board with Power Rails for Electronics Projects Compatible for DIY Arduino Soldering Projects, Gold-Plated, 3.8"x3.5" (3 Pack, Matte Black)

Vey handy boards for simple projects. Much less expensive than custom boards when there only a few connectiosn. Vry high quality fabrication. FRP substrate and gold plating! I haven't seen that since HP products from 30 years ago.

These are super handy for building your own electronic circuits. The holes are nice and big to fit wires through, but not too big as to make it hard to solder. Love how they can snap apart too for different sizes. I was worried they may break apart too easy, but they're pretty sturdy.

I have accumulated several types and brands of solderable breadboards over the past 25+ years. These have gold-plated through holes. Some vendors are unsure whether the boards they sell are plated through. That is just to confirm ElectroCookie's description. Only holes on one side are connected. That's a big plus to me as sometimes I have to cut a connection, and it's easier that way. Each snaps into 4, so 12 small boards all together. This design is attractive, because I like 2 or 3 holes connected and at the standard (0.1") separation between sets. By comparison,, the other type I use has 5 holes connected with a larger space (0.3") between sets to accommodate a DIP chip. One use for the current board design (aside for general purpose) is attaching parts like DB9 connectors with wires to a larger breadboard. You can easily add two-row connectors. Lastly, the silk screen shows ElectroCookie, so it is not some generic, high volume protoboard made in China and sold by merchants that don't really know what they are selling. The package label shows an American flag and part description, which is a lot better than essentially unlabeled things from some other vendors.. That makes reordering far easier. Great value for the money.

Each of these splits into four small boards that can be used for different small projects, so they’re not overly expensive. They come prescored btw. I used lead free solder and in cases where I had to desolder some components, the copper traces came off the board. Solder doesn’t stick to the PCB so it’s difficult to bridge adjacent contacts, so even for small runs, I have to use jumper wires. Otherwise, they worked perfectly for my circuits.

Quality and build as advertised works great for people like me who aren’t 100% sure how they want the circuit to look. I do wish the mount holes were slightly larger because they are the smallest of all my circuits and chips so my nylon m3 standoff screws don’t fit in but that’s TOTALLY on me for not checking because it’s in the description !

I build electronics for work, and by "build" I mean "bash together existing circuits to hopefully do something useful". Early in this part of my career, I found and really liked the solderable breadboards from Adafruit and SparkFun, but in past years I've been looking for something a bit more flexible without forcing me to create my own traces with solder. A strip board, if you would. That's where this board comes in. This is a grid of through hole pads connected 3 at a time on the back. The holes are nice and big to accommodate things like 5.08mm pitch large screw terminals (which you can't really fit on Adafruit boards with this pitch), and the exposed traces are nice because that gives you the option to cut them, and you get a nice big pad which means good thermal contact. One issue I've had with SparkFun boards is that the pad finish tends to tarnish quickly, over the span of a year or so. These pads appear to use a good quality ENIG finish which means they're like Oshpark boards, shiny even after a couple of years stashed in the back of a drawer. A bit pricey compared to some of the other options out there, but these are good quality.

Soldered nicely. I've only used one so far. Made a three phase bridge rectifier to convert brushless drone motor to a DC dynamo. Worked great. Life is good.

This is a nice kit. 3 holes are connected at a time, allowing some flexibility. It can be snapped into 4 pieces for smaller projects.