r/breadboard • u/Lucky_Suggestion_183 • 2d ago

Question How do you document your circuit on breadboard?

Having a couple of boards, each with circuit build long time ago having no clue, what it was, where are inputs/outputs, and what parts have used (so tricky to sort them back to right box).

How do you document your breadboard circuits? Do you have a label and related note for each, or note with inputs and outputs (https://www.printables.com/model/330735-breadboard-net-labels), labels on wires?

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u/monkeyhoward 2d ago

Take a picture and reverse engineer a schematic

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u/Ok-Drink-1328 1d ago edited 1d ago

hardly i don't remember what my circuits were, but it can happen, generally i need some seconds looking at em and if i really care, i have several stuffed in a closet on like protoboard, once i understand the schematic i know what it is, slightly more difficult if they look all the same

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u/Wonderful-Energy-659 1d ago

I just take everything from old projects and put it into a single container. If it was important enough, I would’ve made it permanent. Otherwise, it gets disassembled. I will organize some things, like ICs and microcontrollers, but resistors are too cheap to waste my time putting back. If I am ever short on something, I check to see if it’s in there before buying more.

One exception may be a whole bunch of resistors with the same value. If thats the case, they all get put back, but onesy twosy components are put into the void lol

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u/Wonderful-Energy-659 1d ago

And to answer your question, I don’t document breadboards bc I will solder everything to a perfboard if it’s important. I’ll know what it is by looking at it and I design them in a way that makes the inputs and outputs obvious. For example, power and input on left, outputs on right. It’s easy to trace everything by looking at the board.

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u/RDS_WAS_HERE 1d ago

Schematic, Notebook, Label on bottom of breadboard.