In the Lab – Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire

by hasheddan on 1/30/2026, 9:40:24 PM

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2020/02/22/In-The-Lab-Magnet-Wire-Soldering.html

Comments

by: Animats

Most people today use Kynar hook-up wire for this sort of thing. Even WalMart stocks it.

2/2/2026, 4:55:28 AM

by: simojo

This is orders of magnitude more complicated and risk prone than wire wrapping due to the possibility of cold joints, but as I understand it, this look is what people dig these days (just watch any EE youtuber). I too used to think that soldering on porto board was a great way to go about prototyping sans SBB, but you can't ignore the bomber connections that wire wrapping gives you.

2/2/2026, 4:11:48 AM

by: ranger_danger

When we had to bypass the onboard UARTs: <a href="https://0x0.st/PbKT.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://0x0.st/PbKT.jpg</a>

2/2/2026, 2:53:58 AM

by: rasz

I have a good example - Piotr Grzesik's prototype of 486 SBC recently covered on Hackaday <a href="https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/m8sbc-86-is-an-fpga-based-kinda-pc-compatible-486/" rel="nofollow">https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/m8sbc-86-is-an-fpga-based-ki...</a> and HN <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578601">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578601</a><p><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/486-homebrew-computer-lsUiWdw#dIBtgXv" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/gallery/486-homebrew-computer-lsUiWdw#dIBt...</a><p>Looks like something that shouldnt work at all :)

2/1/2026, 1:07:13 AM