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In the Lab – Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2020/02/22/In-The-Lab-Magnet-Wire-Soldering.html
10•hasheddan•2d ago

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rasz•1d ago
I have a good example - Piotr Grzesik's prototype of 486 SBC recently covered on Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/m8sbc-86-is-an-fpga-based-ki... and HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578601

https://imgur.com/gallery/486-homebrew-computer-lsUiWdw#dIBt...

Looks like something that shouldnt work at all :)

jacquesm•11m ago
Indeed, by rights that shouldn't work. But it does and he threw in an ISA bus just for the heck of it and that works too. And all of this at a very respectable clock speed. Mad props.
ranger_danger•1h ago
When we had to bypass the onboard UARTs: https://0x0.st/PbKT.jpg
tylerflick•42m ago
Is this really easier to work with than bodge wire (wire wrap)? Asking because I still have a few rolls and would rather not waste money.
simojo•26m ago
This is orders of magnitude more complicated and risk prone than wire wrapping due to the possibility of cold joints, but as I understand it, this look is what people dig these days (just watch any EE youtuber). I too used to think that soldering on porto board was a great way to go about prototyping sans SBB, but you can't ignore the bomber connections that wire wrapping gives you.

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In the Lab – Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2020/02/22/In-The-Lab-Magnet-Wire-Soldering.html
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