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All the boards

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Anirudh Sevugan
Anirudh Sevugan

Alright, this is an obvious one for hardware fans. Which board is better?

A PCB (Printed Circuit Board), a dot board, or a breadboard?

Breadboard

The obvious choice for those at home, the breadboard is reusable for all of your circuits, and can power tons of smaller-scale experiments.

It's also designed for use with tons of equipment, such as an Adafruit device, a Raspberry Pi, and more!

PCB (Printed Circuit Board)

As the Excalibur of all the boards we're talking about here, this one's powerful! With it's multiple-layered versions, it's built to power enterprise-grade systems, it's not only great for mass production it's used in cars, rockets, servers, and TONS more!

However, only those skilled enough can use it, so for home experiments, a breadboard is usually preferred.

Dot board

The most manual of the three, it's made for soldering and just getting a feel of the raw power of circuits, without all of the conveniency. It's the best when you want to just learn about the inside of circuits and boards, but the PCB is basically its successor.

It's your choice from here!