30 years experience says the best way to use a breadboard is don't use one.
They suffer from contact wear, stray capacitance and inductance, unreliable contacts and rather non optimal signal routing. This slowly adds up to pending headaches like failing circuits and ones that can't be reproduced. Even the nice 3M ones are problematic.
I tend to use single sided copper clad board and build stuff rats nest. Drill some holes through the board and screw it to the inside of a die cast box lid and for a one off it's good. Works fine up to 1GHz or so with some thinking unlike breadboards (1MHz if the planets are aligned appropriately). Also works for high voltage and high current stuff. If you have lots of digital, flip the ICs upside down and use kynar for signal routing.
Here's one I did last year where someone stole the internal oscillator out of an RF signal generator so I built one from the service manual schematics. Prototype: https://imgur.com/KLnEzcs ... This was "productionised" onto a custom PCB: https://imgur.com/WM44RYl
They suffer from contact wear, stray capacitance and inductance, unreliable contacts and rather non optimal signal routing. This slowly adds up to pending headaches like failing circuits and ones that can't be reproduced. Even the nice 3M ones are problematic.
Refer to https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/appl... ... AN47-26 breadboarding techniques.
I tend to use single sided copper clad board and build stuff rats nest. Drill some holes through the board and screw it to the inside of a die cast box lid and for a one off it's good. Works fine up to 1GHz or so with some thinking unlike breadboards (1MHz if the planets are aligned appropriately). Also works for high voltage and high current stuff. If you have lots of digital, flip the ICs upside down and use kynar for signal routing.
Here's one I did last year where someone stole the internal oscillator out of an RF signal generator so I built one from the service manual schematics. Prototype: https://imgur.com/KLnEzcs ... This was "productionised" onto a custom PCB: https://imgur.com/WM44RYl