Jumperless V5
An IDE for hardware inside a breadboard
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An IDE for hardware inside a breadboard
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Jumperless V5 lets you prototype like a nerdy wizard who can see electrons and conjure jumpers with a magic wand. Any point can connect to any other using software-defined jumpers, along with a ton of analog and digital IO for output and measurement. 435 LEDs under the breadboard show real-time information about whatever’s happening in your circuit. Now circuits are scriptable with its own Python interpreter, which opens up a world of crazy new things you couldn't do on a regular breadboard.
Hey! I'm Kevin and this is the thing I've been working on for the past 5 years.
The old version got 2nd place in 2023 Hackaday Prize, which gave me some validation that it was an alright idea, so I kept everything that worked well (the array of 12 8x16 analog crossbar switches) and cranked everything else up to 11. It turns out that the user experience feeling like straight-up magic is just so incredibly important here. The old one basically does the same thing, but improving the user feedback (with 5x more LEDs and an OLED) and input (with the probe and clickwheel) makes the V5 genuinely fun to use.
And if you really want to do some cool shit, it has a built in Micropython interpreter with its own module for controlling hardware-specific stuff. It also does USB-Serial passthrough so you can talk to things anywhere on the breadboard like it was plugged directly into your computer.
There's so much to say about what the Jumperless does and how it works so you can either read the docs or just ask me anything here and I'd be happy to go into way too much detail about it.