I have the same background and have wondered the same thing. I still have lots of wire wrapping tools, including wire wrap proto boards and numbered templates for many chip packages (for following wiring diagrams)
I'd often quickly wirewrap a circuit to prototype and test, and after verifying it worked, solder it onto a proto board. Then I'd unwrap and reuse the wire wrap board for the next project. Haven't used any of that stuff in years (I now do much less hardware hacking than software hacking). Is it a lost art or has something else replaced it for rapid circuit prototyping? On Dec 24, 2014 12:16 PM, "Bill Carter" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm finding that for most of my IOIO projects I am having to do a lot of > detailed wire soldering. I have female header pins on the IOIO board, plug > that in to male header pins on an adapter board, and then solder what is > potentially a lot of little wires from those header pins to something else > (a motor controller for example). Back in the day when I was an electronics > technician (several decades ago) we used wirewrap for things like this. You > can use a wirewrap tool to strip a wire, zip it onto a pin in seconds, and > run the wire to another pin and wrap it on quickly and with no soldering. > > I guess that technique has fallen somewhat out of favor but you can still > buy the tools and the wire on Amazon. Has anyone done this recently? Do > wirewrap tools fit onto standard header pins? I'm not sure what to get. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ioio-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
