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#408 Power/BBBreakout

A little breadboard power adapter and breakout with 5.5x2.1mm barrel jack, terminal block and XH2.54 connectors.

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Just a simple little project to clean up my desk a little, where I often have various power adapters and connectors cluttering up my space. This is an adapter that can plug into the power rails of a breadboard, and provides:

While I’m normally powering this from the barrel jack, it can actually be used to route power in with any of the connectors and out all the others.

The connectors and LED, with current limiting resistor good for up to 24V conservatively, are mounted on a small piece of protoboard, roughly laid out like this:

BBBreakout_layout

Breadboard

Schematic

The end result:

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Credits and References

About LEAP#408 Power
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LEAP is just my personal collection of electronics projects - usually involving an Arduino or other microprocessor in one way or another. Some are full-blown projects, while many are trivial breadboard experiments, intended to learn and explore something interesting.

Projects are often inspired by things found wild on the net, or ideas from the many great electronics podcasts and YouTube channels. Feel free to borrow liberally, and if you spot any issues do let me know (or send a PR!). See the individual projects for credits where due.

For a while I have also included various scale modelling projects here too, but I've now split those off into a new repository. Check out LittleModelArt if you are looking for the modelling projects!

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