Wire Wrap 101

Wire wrapping is an incredible prototyping method that produces very secure and clean circuits on perf boards. When you are ready to move beyond the breadboard but not ready to design a pcb then wire wrapping is the perfect solution. But, if you are like me you always heard of wire wrapping but never saw a good example of how to actually do it! Instead of scouring news groups and forums for hints on how wire wrapping works, like I had to do, Bil Herd comes to our rescue with a nice Wire Wrapping tutorial that lays everything out in one place. If you don’t already use wire wrapping it is a skill well worth learning. The tools are cheap and easy to get a hold of, wire wrapping wire still sells at Radio Shack even though they no longer sell the $3 tool. Ebay is probably the best bet to get a wire wrap tool these days…

Properly done a wire wrap assembly is capable of fairly high speed and acceptable noise when the alternative option of creating a custom PCB would take too long or not allow enough experimentation.  Wire wrap is also used in several types of production, from telco to NASA, but I am all about the engineer’s point of view on this.

via hackaday.com