Synthetic Bread

This is a prototyping module I decided to create. I got pretty sick of dealing with having jacks and pots hanging off my board all over the place and figured having a breadboard with a bunch of easy-to-connect-to things that are firmly mounted in place would make my life much easier. it has four unbalanced jacks with both the tip and the switch broken out. the ground is connected under the board as I am always going to want them grounded. Above that are five potentiometers. Currently two 100K and three 1M as that was what I had on hand at the time of making this. To the left of that, there are three rows of headers each row all wired together. I figured I would probably want to use some less common pots and this works a lot better than having them dangle from wires. Above that are the power headers. One each for +12v ground and -12v next to each breadboard power rail. In between these I threw in some SPDT switches. Along the top are six LEDs that have 1K current limiting resistors wired in on the back. Then we come to just wiring the parts to their respective breakout points, there is a simple strip board with a couple caps, and a eurorack 12 pin connector for ease of use in my rack.

I am really quite pleased with how much easier this makes prototyping for me. I'll admit that having my whole synthesizer setup on the desk isn't as nice as just working on a breadboard, but the pros far outway the cons. My only real gripe with this is the headers I used for all my connection. They honestly are pretty crap for sticking jumper wires in. I'm still contemplating a better method for breaking out all of the onboard bits. Honestly, some better quality headers might be all it needs.