How to use Breadboard - Using Breadboard for beginners and prototyping circuits

Thanks so much! I just started taking my electronics course this semester and our professor gave us our kits and said "You figure it out." This helped a LOT.

you sound relaxed through the video and it made me relaxed

Excellent demonstration. Liked the modular approach to connect the LDR circuit with the buzzer 👍

This is how YouTube tutorials should be! Excellent! Thank you 🙏

I thought the current was vertical on the breadboard lol. No wonder why I was having so many issues. Thanks for taking one apart and clarifying this!

Outstanding video for new users! Thank you Im embarrassed that I never learned how to use one of these. I have built 100's of "gizmos" all by soldering them up. I truly feel like I was trying to invent the wheel now.

Great intro video for a noob like me! Easy to follow and I like your voice and teaching style =)

Fine presentation,simple and to the point. Thank you.

Great primer on these! Thanks.

Cool thanks for this, I'll try to buy from your shop whenever I can since you've taken the time to post tutorials on YouTube and I'm UK based! 

Awesome explanation, been making some guitar pedals withouth breadboarding first, that's the reason why some aren't working. I need to get one ASAP!

Thanks for the video, it was very easy to follow.

Nice! Just bought your beginner kit!

Can't wait to have the starter kit in my hands! Good job Mr. Mallinson!

thanks for the informative video! with the colorful breadboards, like in the beginning of the video, are the two rows on each side the 'power rails' where they go the opposite direction like on these type or how do they work?

I must take the time to comment my thanks for this video because despite NOT being completely new to circuitry, in as much as I can read basic - intermediate schematics (although cringe on some with IC's even though I know they make it easier) and understand the basic functions of most of the components used I haven't had much experience designing, building or testing circuits and recently set out to expand my "paper" understanding, in order to start producing basic but purposeful devices. So I ran out and got me some breadboards to ..as you put it..."prototype" some circuits for projects I am taking on, as well as to free hands when testing components working together, and despite having some background in a retail consumer electronics chain as a manager, (I was principally the COMPUTER guru of the area and never got down and dirty with circuits) and I was at a complete LOSS as to how to START.... NOTHING....and I mean NOTHING, no instructions come with many of them, even from one of the best sources for as long as I can remember, Radio Shack, who has rather pricey ones at that,,don't even include the most basic instruction sheet to indicate HOW/WHAT DIRECTION the holes are pinned/connected.... or maybe saying...indicating which way the rails actually run, so I can be sure of whether I am connecting one thing to the other, or isolating a component for being pinned to it's other side of itself instead of the intended component it should be connected to for there being no directional indicators that specify which direction to wire parallelly or serially. So THANK YOU for the insight and bonus of illustration/demonstration circuits to quantify the concepts mentally, so that I can form the rules I need to follow to use it correctly and be able to tell my testing is valid, and not failing because I didn't know if something was hooked to the other or not for the lack of indicators.    Although I was a little surprised at your griping about hooking in the buzzer, for being experienced enough to TEACH this in a video and not know or think to advise the following...So a NOTE TO NEWBIES...IF you MUST use a braided/twisted wire (because a component is hard wired with it like this buzzer/beeper) instead of solid, Use Solder to TIN the ends of your wire with a "hot" fine tipped iron so it will suck the solder into the braid and cool to a "solid like" consistency, and if needed, rather than applying more heat and risking melting the insulation trying to correct for any flaws in tinning, simply file/sand the tips to be smooth if any air bubbles were caught in the cooled solder as sometimes happens from the flux used to condition/clean the wire ends so they will insert easily but still hold firm...You can also use a AWG step  or two higher/smaller since the solder can also be used to add girth to the end...if the board calls for 20 AWG you can probably get away with up to 26 AWG wire...the solder mix ratio and metal types will be what determines how much it will add to the thickness. Back to the drawing...err....Breadboard  LOL ... I would have thought they could have at least indicated which direction each section's rails are running in some way.  And NO the numbers and letters running along side do not make it any more obvious for lacking anything to indicate their purpose and for all we know they could be for tracking any number of intentions, and when it comes to electrical...one does NOT want to ASSUME anything.   I would just add, with respect to production values...keeping in mind how many of us Yanks will likely watch your videos, to consider that it's helpful when shooting videos, to either compensate for this in editing, or else be more aware that when speaking especially with ANY type of accent be it UK AU or the deep south of the USA this already increases the difficulty in understanding what is being said, , let alone when your voice drops at times, and especially if the recorder isn't "auto levelling" or something, and I had to go back at a number of points to catch what you said....but that personal peeve notwithstanding. WELL DONE and a positive contribution to the community...now I can make fake free energy videos like the other clowns and get tons of views while producing nothing of value to make $$ from Google! LOL!  (JK) NOT!!  LOL! Cheers and keep the info coming, this was my first of your videos and was enough to get me to check out your others...depending on what I find it might even result in a subscribe, but for now it at least gets a up thumb!!! 

Brilliant. Thank you.

Helped me a lot!!!

thanks a lot, Andrew

what resistors are you using