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Episode two

A project log for Pimp my breadboard

just some tips, tricks and ideas for making breadboards more appealing

davedarkodavedarko 05/03/2018 at 08:555 Comments

I totally forgot that I've created a project for this, but that only shows how important pink breadboards are to me! Here's part two of the series on my endeavour to get some nice breadboards. Next time I'll focusing on the power supply adapters you can get on ebay and will do something fun with them.

I've gotten some input again and will try with more small white breadboards, thankfully they're very cheap on aliexpress - I got ten for 3,4 Euros. I'll experiment with exposure time and a thinner solution.

The solution I've used this time is called "Rit Dye" and is meant for dyeing synthetic clothes and this time it worked well! Thanks to @WooDWorkeR  who gave me the link to this https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=35444.0 I was pretty sure it would work this time and the results look very cool, a bit cherry red because they were probably exposed for too long. 

The spray paint doesn't look that bad either but will probably scratched of in the long run. 

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AVR wrote 05/03/2018 at 12:54 point

Rit Dye on breadboards I love that idea! I did a apple keyboard in rit dye years ago.

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Morning.Star wrote 05/03/2018 at 10:11 point

Good one DD, thats a brilliant idea dude. Rit is available in the UK too, but its all over Amazon.

Great videos, I'm glad you persisted and posted the results, that Gameboy case is spectacular :-D

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davedarko wrote 05/03/2018 at 12:46 point

thanks a lot :)

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Dr. Cockroach wrote 05/03/2018 at 09:16 point

Damn, that is awesome :-D Rit is a big seller over here but did not know about a synthetic version of it so great going :-D

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davedarko wrote 05/03/2018 at 12:47 point

mechanical keyboard people use it for dyeing their key caps :) 

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