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Anyone who occasionally works with breadboards knows the challenges. Cold connections, heaps of jumper cables that more resemble a Starsky & Hutch hairstyle than a comprehensible connection diagram, a desoldering tweezer misplaced by the dog, sore fingers, and chipped tooth corners because... well, the dog just won't fetch the darn thing. 🤷‍♂️

This is where the idea by Kevin Santo Cappuccio aka @arabidsquid comes in quite handy.

Jumperless is a breadboard where you can simply configure and test all point-to-point connections programmatically.

But this gadget can do even more. The RGB LEDs underneath each row, 2 DACs, 4 ADCs, 2 current and voltage sensors, as well as 5 GPIOs turn it into a marvelous analysis tool.

To be honest, the cost-benefit ratio is a bit skewed when it comes to larger builds involving more than one or two boards, making it more suited for those with deep pockets – but that's not the real objective here.

However, for those who quickly want to test a circuit, probe an unknown IC, or write to an EEPROM (yes!), this project might be seriously appealing.

And... it sparkles. 🥴