Bread boarding

Bread boarding is used in digital electronics to wire and test a circuit. Many components can be used to bread board. For example, some include resistors, wires, capacitors, gates (like the AND, OR, and NOT), or switches. The actual bread board is wired underneath in a specific way.


Every hole in the green circle is connected. The very top line is all connected, and is separate from the line below it. The first 2 lines across the top  and the bottom are called banks. For the middle, each 5 holes vertically care connected, and are separate from the next set of 5 holes next to it, or below it. the banks are not connected to the middle area, and the 2 middle areas are not connected to each other.


There is also this type of bread board, which is a little different, but not by much.



Instead of the banks being only 2 lines on the top and bottom, its split into 2 groups, as shown by the very top red lines. These 2 banks aren't connected, and are separate from each other but everything else remains the same.