1 Making logic gates from transistors
Ben Eater builds basic logic gates from transistors, resistors and LEDs on a breadboard; beginners often follow it, then ask how the XOR circuit works.
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breadboard
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2 1-Day Project: Build Your Own Arduino Uno for $5
Julian Ilett builds a standalone ATmega328P Arduino for about five dollars, a common starting point for people making their own Arduino-compatible boards.
3 Astable 555 timer - 8-bit computer clock - part 1
Ben Eater explains the inner workings of the 555 timer and builds an adjustable astable clock for his 8-bit computer; popular with beginners following along on breadboards.
4 EEVblog #568 - Solderless Breadboard Capacitance
Dave Jones measures the parasitic capacitance between solderless breadboard rows, cited when stray picofarads upset crystals, small capacitors or fast circuits.
5 The world's worst video card?
First part of Ben Eater's series building a VGA video card from logic chips on a breadboard; recommended for understanding VGA timing and the effort involved.
6 How to Use a Breadboard
A plain introduction to what a breadboard is and how to use one, offered to complete beginners before their first circuit.
7 Fritzing - An Introduction
Introduces Fritzing, the open-source tool for breadboard layouts, schematics and simple PCBs; suggested for beginners who want diagrams that match their breadboard.
8 Arduino Uno to ATmega328 - Shrinking your Arduino Projects
DroneBot Workshop shows how to move an Arduino project onto a bare ATmega328 on a breadboard and program it; recommended for shrinking projects and cutting battery drain.
9 Collin's Lab: Breadboards & Perfboards #Adafruit
Collin's Lab episode on how breadboards connect under the surface and how to move a circuit onto perfboard, recommended for beginners confused about layouts.
10 How to Build an AVR Development Board
Ben Heck builds a bare AVR development board from the chip up, used to show what an Arduino actually contains and how to work without one.
11 Collin's Lab: The REAL Breadboard
A Make video showing the original wooden breadboard with nails, usually linked to explain where the name comes from or as a nostalgic build idea.
12 Testing our computer's registers - 8-bit register - Part 5
Part of Ben Eater's breadboard 8-bit computer, testing the register module with LEDs on the bus; often cited when builders hit marginal logic levels.
13 Custom Cables & Guide to Crimping Dupont PCB Interconnect Cables
Linked a couple of times as a demonstration of Dupont style connectors and cable assemblies for breadboard and GPIO wiring.
14 How to use a BreadBoard - Electronics Basics 10
Offered as an introduction to solderless breadboards for anyone starting to build prototype circuits without soldering.
15 Minifying the Arduino - [Anything Arduino] (ep2)
Walks through running an ATmega328 on a breadboard with a resonator as a minimal Arduino, recommended for cutting cost on permanent projects.
16 Arduino Tutorial #1 - Digital Inputs and Outputs - Button & LED
Offered to newcomers as a first Arduino exercise, wiring a simple LED circuit on a breadboard with jumper leads from an Uno.
17 Learn how computers add numbers and build a 4 bit adder circuit
Ben Eater explains binary addition and builds a 4-bit adder from logic gates on a breadboard; suggested to people asking how a processor physically does arithmetic.
