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• The breadboard or prototyping board (proto board for short) allows you to assemble electrical circuits and easily perform tests and measurements upon the circuits.
• Also known as "solderless" breadboarding socket.
  
• Components such as transistors, resistors, capacitors, diodes and integrated devices tie directly to the board.

• Rectangular plastic block with many small holes in the top.
• Holes are arranged in rows and enable you to insert wires into them to make electrical contact.
  
• Under the plastic material there is an array of metallic strips or conductors that interconnect the holes around which you can build electric circuits.
  
• Holes serve as electrical connection points which are able to receive wires and clip onto them to hold them in place and insulates them from each other.
  
• Internal metallic strips are not visible.

• Heart of the breadboard.
• Made of nickel silver (reasonably conductive, springy and corrosion resistant).
  
• Each strip has various pairs of independent fingers or clips to hold a wire.
  Each pair of fingers or clips is located under a hole.
  
• The socket strips are used to connect components and usually have 5 contacts or clips.
  
• The bus strips are used to distribute power and ground voltages and usually have 25 contacts or clips.
  
• The breadboard is a combination of socket strips, bus strips and binding posts.

• To keep your breadboard in good condition use only solid wire (no. 22, 23 or 24), never insert too large component lead, bent wires or more than one wire on a hole.

• Is an art that cannot be learned in few minutes.
  It takes practice and experience.