Yoshi’s DIY stripboard cutter
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
I was in the electronics lab making a prototype and was just saying how I prefer the stripboards with links, where the solder points are connected in groups of three, rather than in strips that run the full length of the card. Yoshi just reached out his hand, picked something up and waved it triumphantly. “You need this!”
It turned out to be a little tool he made himself. It’s a poor photo I took with my camera - it’s not actually rusty, it just looks like that in photo. He made this from a blade from an jigsaw, using a Dremel tool to cut away all the teeth and make a sharp point at the edge. Using this it’s really easy to cut away the copper from the stripboard.