The Raspberry Pi Thread [3]

Hard wired the power pins on my solderless breadboard with jumper wire. I don't like this breakout board all that much but its my only spare. I like the PiHut one with the power already broken out to the power rails a lot better. It's nicely centered too, this one isn't. It will do for now. 5V and Ground on one rail and 3.3V and Ground on the other.

Jury rigged a lamp too, borrowed an LED one I use with my laptop and hooked it up with a cable that came with one of my Logitech Unifying receivers / keyboard bundles.

Tech Tip. If you get resistors or capacitors etc, bundles in rolls with sticky paper holding them together. Don't just pull the paper off. That will leave the glue behind that will gum up your solderless breadboard. It can also mess up your soldering as it gets on the pads as you push the lead through the hole. Cut them off the roll with wire cutters. Snip the leads right where the tape starts.

Yup. Those rolls of components are meant to be fed into machines that cut and shape the leads to make the parts ready to be set into a PCB. It's not intended that the leads be pulled out of the tape on the ends.

Top pic is my new "toy" in use, bottom pic is additional accessories that came with it, Carrying bag, ethernet cable, Pi case and wifi dongle. All-in-all a neat little package. I'm happy.

@strollin I'd be smiling to.

caperjack said:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-is...rs_Book_v1.pdf

Out today: the Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Book

Nobody in this thread needs that, Downloading as I type this. Thanks for the link.

The how to use a bread board will help some. A lot, and I mean a lot, of people have no clue how the holes are linked together. Just started reading it myself.
Getting to know GPIO is good info.

Actually a pretty good learning aid for somebody that just bought their first Pi. And a quick reference for the rest of us. << makes me thing of the for Dummies books, lol.