I am working on a project that will run on a small development board. I was expecting to use an Arduino Nano, but I’ll likely use a Mega Mini or sn Artemis Nano. While it’s possible that a PCB may be used in the future, I’d really like to put together my initial prototype(s) using solderable breadboard. My problem is that while breadboards are great for DIP components, the small ones in particular are not so great for small development boards. The Mega Mini is nearly the same size as one of those, and it’s pin arrangement does not lend itself well to a standard breadboard.
Does anyone know of someone who makes, or might Sparkfun consider making these kinds of solderable breadboatds?
Hi IndyRick,
We may have a solderable breadboard or perf/protoboard that could work for you here. We have three different solderable breadboards ([Standard, [Mini and [Large) that could work for you. Otherwise, we have a fairly large selection of protoboards [here. The [Snappable Protoboard would be the most customizable of them but you would need to manually route your traces between components with that.](SparkFun Snappable Protoboard - PRT-13268 - SparkFun Electronics)](https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/301)](SparkFun Solder-able Breadboard - Large - PRT-12699 - SparkFun Electronics)](SparkFun Solder-able Breadboard - Mini - PRT-12702 - SparkFun Electronics)](SparkFun Solder-able Breadboard - PRT-12070 - SparkFun Electronics)
Hi TS-Mark,
The SparkFun boards are look like quality, standard boards. I was hoping that someone made boards that were better suited to small development boards. For example, an Arduino Nano would fit just fine on a standard board: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12070, but it leaves the microUSB connector well in from the edge. Also, it you wanted to mount connectors on the edge, the bus bars are likely in the way. I would expect that a board designed for the Nano would take advantage of the much wider (compared to a DIP) pin distance and perhaps even put the power & ground busses right down the middle. There’s room for a ground, 5v, & 3v bus bar there. That’s the sort of thing I was hoping that someone could point me in the direction of.
Hi again,
Ah, I understand now. Unfortunately, we will not have anything that would work well for that but you might try looking at another distributor like Digi-Key, Mouser or Jameco Electronics. They would have larger prototyping board catalogs that you might find something that works.
Otherwise, you may need to go to a small-batch PCB manufacturer like OSH Park to get custom PCBs made for you.
Thanks for your help. It doesn’t look like they have what I’m looking for, either (but their catalogs are large, so I’ll keep looking). I haven’t seen one, but is there a procedure to suggest a product to SparkFun?
While it’s more for proposing SparkFun selling or producing a product you designed, the [How to Sell Your Widget on SparkFun page would be the best way to “suggest” products for us to carry.](https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-sell-your-widget-on-sparkfun)