Breadboards and perfboards make is easy to build all kinds of electronics, but they're not exactly easy to understand at a glance. Thankfully, Adafruit has a video that walks you through the basics.

Breadboards are a staple of DIY projects because they make it so you can test your electronics without permanently attaching anything. This means you can test away without every touching a soldering iron. Once you're done with the prototyping, you'll move all those electronics over to a perfboard and solder them in. The above video makes it all pretty easy to understand it all.

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