Circuitry Problems

[IPW]

So, I'm tryna do some simple circuitry on my pi, and it's not working. I got the circuit from https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspb ... readboard/ whenever I take out an LED and put in a new one, it lights up for a second then does nothing. Also, when I take out my LED and put in an LED that's already lighten up for a second, it doesn't light up. Am I doing something wrong? Is my Break Out board in the wrong position? Is my resistor in the wrong position? Is the LED in the wrong position? Do I need some more cables for it to work? Thanks for all help in advance!

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[klricks]

If you are connecting a LED directly across the power supply without a resistor then it will burn out (be destroyed) in less than a second.

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[GTR2Fan]

Breadboard is the work of the devil. Learn to solder.

[DougieLawson]

Breadboard is the work of the devil. Learn to solder.

Only after you've first learned to de-solder. Breadboards are extremely useful for short term experiments, soldering should be considered permanent. Suggesting to the new users that they shouldn't use a breadboard is irresponsible.

[GTR2Fan]

Suggesting to the new users that they shouldn't use a breadboard is irresponsible.

As is selling breadboard to beginners without concise instructions on how to use it due to the permanent damage it can do to attached hardware and the user if used incorrectly.

Only a couple of days ago we had a post here from a user who was new to breadboard usage and had an LED explode in his face blasting a jagged lump of LED body across the room at high velocity due to incorrect usage. I'd rather encourage someone to learn the relatively simple art of soldering than leave them in a position where they could lose the use of an eye.

[Burngate]

So how can soldering be safer than breadboarding?

So you want the beginner to learn to solder.
That seems to imply the use of a circuit board of some sort.
The only circuit board I know of that isn't special-purpose is stripboard, aka Veroboard.
Which is laid out very similarly to a breadboard.
If you can mis-wire a breadboard so LEDs explode, you can do exactly the same on Veroboard.

So how can soldering be safer than breadboarding?

[GTR2Fan]

That seems to imply the use of a circuit board of some sort.
The only circuit board I know of that isn't special-purpose is stripboard, aka Veroboard.

The plain perforated board (ie, no copper tracks) is far more sensible as it's not magically putting connections in where you almost certainly don't want them. Either that or just bird's-nest it if it's a simple circuit with few components. Both allow circuits based largely on discrete components to be laid out in very much of a like-for-like fashion in relation to circuit schematics, so potentially dangerous mistakes are far less likely to happen.

Having spent a number of years as both a lab technician and a first-aider at one of the UK's leading teaching institutes in earlier life, I've seen far more accidents relating to the use of breadboard by the inexperienced than either of the other two approaches I've mentioned above.

Being labelled as irresponsible for preferring a potentially much safer approach is neither needed nor helpful to anyone.