Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!kcl-cs!andrew From: andrew@kcl-cs.UUCP (Andrew B Smith) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Vero-wire circuit prototyping system Keywords: vero wire prototype Message-ID: <187@lithium.kcl-cs.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 11:22:26 GMT Organization: Department of Computing, King's College London Lines: 29 Hi, I am looking into the use of the 'Vero Wire' prototyping system for the construction of a small micro board. For those of you who do not know what 'Vero Wire' is (it may have a different name in your country) I shall explain. Vero Wire is a wiring system for creating prototype circuit boards. It consists of a pen and 30 SWG wire (I think may be thinner). The wire is copper and insulated. The user takes the wire and wraps it round the leg of an IC/component/socket and takes the wire onto a plastic comb. The wire is then routed along a series of combbs to the other components to which connections are required. When the routing for a particular wire is done the wraped connections are soldered to break the insulation and make a joint. This prototyping system has the advantage over wire-wrap in that the boards are much thinner (the same as a PCB). I would like to hear from people who have had experience with this system and the problems they have encountered (reliability, and types of circuit it is suitable for). I am interested in the effects of noise and crosstalk on the wires, and the sorts of speed of micro you can build. If I get a positive response and development looks promising I shall post an account of my experiences. Thank you, Andrew Smith.