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Neywinytoday at 12:21 PM1 replyview on HN

Many years ago, back when I was in high school and they started getting into things like 3D printing and electronics and stuff, the person in charge of all that was discussing the plans with me. I think because I was one of the only students who had electronics experience, at least that people knew about. Anyway, he said they were "going to use breadboard to prototype". The singular of the term was as if it was a product like this. He was so used to every product being a singular of an existing word that would otherwise be plural that when it wasn't a brand/company, he did it anyway. So while I wish you guys much success, feel free to find a name that isn't already a thing.


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d-us-vbtoday at 1:07 PM

Breadboard is an excellent name for this project: it tells me that I can snap preexisting components (analogous to ICs) onto a grid and make connections (analogous to wires) between them.

Context, as always, is everything. I don't think that anyone is mistaking Peter Thiel for one of the elves of Valinor.