What exactly is a Solderless Breadboards and how do they work?
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A solderless breadboard is just a piece of plastic with metal inside of it, so you can quickly make electrical connections for prototyping an electrical device.
There’s a bunch of little holes, and those holes can take in wires to make contact with a piece of metal. That metal carries the electrical current to nearby holes so you can attach the next component.
Generally, there’s a red rail, blue rail, and the rest of the holes on the main breadboard. The red rail is for the positive voltage, the blue rail is for negative voltage or ground. All the holes on the red rail are connected to each other, and all the holes on the blue rail are connected to each other.
The rest of the breadboard usually has many rows of 5 holes. Each row of 5 holes are connected to each other.
This allows you to quickly place, remove, and change electrical components. If you didn’t have this, you would need to constantly solder and unsolder components (which takes time and precision). Soldering it when you take a piece of metal (usually called flux or solder) and you melt it over the leads of 2 components or wires to attach them together.
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