Breadboard (disambiguation)

A breadboard originally was a flat wooden cutting board used to support a loaf of bread (or other foods) while it was being sliced; this original meaning is still in use, but has a new additional meaning as "a base for prototyping". The concept of "breadboarding" as prototyping is not confined to electronic design; "mechanical breadboards" have been and continue to be used by mechanical engineers.

Thus a breadboard may refer to:

• Cutting board, a food preparation utensil
• Breadboard, a construction base used in electric/electronic circuit prototyping
• Optical breadboard, used in optics labs
• Mechanical breadboard, sometimes used in developing mechanical systems
• Brassboard, a stage in engineering prototype development