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If you’ve been around the (electronics) DIY scene for a while, at some point you can’t avoid circuit boards (printed circuit boards/PCBs). The main advantages over soldering circuits by hand on perforated or strip-grid boards are that they are easier to replicate (once designed a circuit can theoretically be produced as often as you like) and that space can be used more efficiently (a board is almost always smaller than a soldered perforated grid board with the same circuit). Ultimately, devices with circuit boards also simply look more professional. There are certainly more advantages (and of course also disadvantages!), but I will not list them here for the sake of simplicity.

Initial considerations

I’ve been thinking about how to write this post for a long time. What needs to be told, what is unimportant? A lot has to be left out for the sake of clarity, and I might not even remember some of it. In any case, I would like to use this article to explain my intention in starting this blog. But to explain that, you have to understand the origins.