Question 8.10: Using a Breadboard with Jumper Leads You want to do some ele......
Using a Breadboard with Jumper Leads
You want to do some electronic prototyping using your Raspberry Pi and solderless breadboard.
Use male-to-female jumper wires and a paper pin label template (Figure 8-5).
Discussion
It’s not always easy to identify the pins you want on a bare Raspberry Pi board. You can greatly simplify this by printing out a paper template to fit over the pins. One such template is available from Doctor Monk.
You will also find it useful to have a selection of male-to-male jumper wires for making connections from one part of the breadboard to another.
Female-to-female jumper wires are also useful for connecting modules with male header pins directly to the Raspberry Pi, where there are no other components that might warrant the use of breadboard. This is actually the case for Figure 8-5.
See Also
This approach works well when you have a small number of connections. When you have more to make, then a Pi Cobbler is better (see Recipe 8.11).
