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Was thinking the same thing. Especially with his "Schematics... forget it; organic creation" blurb. There's as much luck as wire in this build.

File it under "bet you can't do that twice in a row".

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I've built commercial designs using that approach no problems at all. Most of my crap is built on PCB blanks and I have to spend some time reverse engineering it after I'm done.

Picture straight off my bench: http://i.imgur.com/AyXNHfX.jpg

Good lord

Google "jim Williams bench". I'm nothing :)

I don't follow you. Dead-bug construction over bare copper lies at the very opposite end of the spectrum from solderless breadboarding. The two techniques have nothing in common.

You can use the dead-bug technique at frequencies well beyond 1 GHz with a bit of practice. The solderless breadboard, not so much.

I'm not talking about construction here; design approach. I don't have any schematics for what I'm working on; they get drawn up later when it's all working.

I have to reverse engineer deadbug and Manhattan stuff which is a downside which is my point.

Ah, gotcha. Same here.

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