Tired of using wires? Butterboard is an enchanced perforated prototyping board! Each main hole has a nearby GND and VCC connection, as well as two vertical and two horizontal bus connections. GND and VCC pads are already routed, the planes are evenly distributed across the board via grid pattern. It was initially designed for 4-layer boards, but later we realized that the same design can be easily done on just 2 layers.
Butterboard is fully open-source, you are free to make your modifications and produce it as long as you share your changes. The board can be procedurally generated by running the script as a KiCad plugin. Currently we only provide gerbers for 50x100mm boards. You can generate other sizes yourself, but it is probably easier to just ask us to generate a custom board for you.
| Description | Photo |
|---|---|
| Top side |  |
| GND plane is routed to all small round pads |  |
| VCC plane is routed to all square pads |  |
| Vertical bus lanes on the top side |  |
| Bottom side |  |
| Horizontal bus lanes on the bottom side |  |
You can get these boards from regular PCB manufacturers. It should cost you less than 0.9$ per board for 20 boards (<18$).
- Download gerber files from the latest release
- Make an order https://jlcpcb.com/quote
When ordering, select these options:
- PCB Qty: 10
- Panel By JLCPCB: Yes (x: 2 50mm, y: 1 100mm)
- Edge rails: no
You will get 10 panels with two 50x100mm boards each (20 boards in total). Total price with shipping will be different depending on your location, but it should be around 18$ or less.
See also other protoboard projects:
- ALio Proto Board
- Arduino Based Hackable Prototyping Board
- :CREATE Proto Board
- Do-it-yourself SMT prototyping board
- Flower ProtoBoard
- Perf+
- RoutaBoard
- The Ultimate Prototyping Board
- Universal through-hole and SMD prototyping board
- Know more? Please tell us!
Butterboard is a prototyping board on steroids.
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Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev <alex.jakimenko@gmail.com>
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