An Overview Of Breadboard

The fastest way to put a circuit together is on the breadboard which is sometimes called solderless board or plug board.It looks like sliced bread in appearance;this attribute makes it possible for electronic components terminals to be inserted and removed at will with ease.It is mainly used for the termination of wires and electronic components. A breadboard  can equally  be called protoboard because it is  mostly used for the prototyping of  basically most of the electronics before soldering on the Printed Circuit  Board or Veroboard for final production.The present day breadboard is made of a perforated block of  either themoset or thermoplastic with numerous tin plated phosphor bronze or nickel silver alloy spring clips under the perforations. The clips enhance the securing of components terminals and wires to the desire point of electrical connectivity.These clips is mostly referred to as tie points or contact points.The number of tie points is often given in the specification of the breadboard.

Breadboard does not require soldering components and above all,it is reusable. This property makes it easy to be use by electronics hobbyist to test run the electronics circuit before soldering on Printed Circuit Board.Solderless breadboards comes in different sizes and shapes. Manufacturer of these boards abound,most of their products has a similar outlook and layout;always do a due diligence test on the major search engine so as to pick the desired specification for the electronic project at hand.A typical solderless breadboard  layout is made up of two types of areas, called strips. These strips are interconnected electrically.It  has power-rails and sets of "tie-points" or "holes" as shown in the above photo.The power rails  are detachable.These rails are interconnected horizontally.The main board are interconnected vertically.A notch running in parallel to the long side is used to spilt breadboard to two equal halves.The reason for this is to create space for termination of Integrated Circuit,provides unrestricted airflow  for cooling of the Integrated Circuit, and also to prevent the pin out of IC from short circuit. 
The components are connected with hook-up wire (called jumpers) by stripping the ends to expose the wire at both ends. Or you can use 0.5mm tinned copper wire (make sure the jumpers do not touch each other).Do not cut the leads of the components as you may want long leads on another project. While using breadboard,neatness is not important. The important thing is to build as many circuits as possible as each one will help you understand the usage of the board.