Veroboard

Preamble

Veroboard, AKA stripboard – undeniably useful stuff, which has been around since 1959, but how about having some planning tools to hand, to save having all of those tatty designs drawn on the backs of old envelopes…

See also

• Stripboard in EagleCAD
• Using KiCad

Veroboard sizes

These are the commonly found stripboard dimensions:

• 25 x 64 mm => 9 strips x 25 holes (225T) – not 24 holes
• 70 x 90 mm => 26 strips x 34 holes (884T)
• 65 x 95 mm (2.5″ x 3.75″)  => 24 strips x 37 holes (888T)
• 65 x 145 mm (2.5″ x 5.75″) => 24 strips x 56 holes
• 95 x 127 mm => 36 strips x 50 holes (1800T)
• 100 x 160 mm => 35 strips x 61 holes (2135T)
• 100 x 240 mm => 36 strips x 92 holes ( )
• 100 x 250 mm => 35 strips x 96 holes (3360T)
• 100 x 250 mm => 32 strips x 96 holes ( )
• 100 x 245 mm => 36 strips x 92 holes
• 180 x 300 mm => 63 strips x 108 holes
• 95 x 432 mm => 36 strips x 170 holes (6120T)
• 119 x 455 mm => 46 strips x 179 holes

Handy Links

• Veroboard software, Veroboard Stripboard Software offers a list of three software packages
• Favourite Stripboard Layouts? suggests using DIYLC, written in Java
• Want to use Excel? Try Designing Veroboard Layouts With Excel And EasyCalc, which also provides a veroboard image, for use in a drawing package:

• Design a veroboard/stripboard layout from an Eagle schematic
  • – suggests 0.1″ grid in documents layer
  • or use KiCAD – well supported, by CERN
  • Avoid VeeCAD, TinyCAD
• How approach breadboard layout using KiCad?
• Stripboard/veroboard/matrix board design software
  • suggests only random, poorly supported 3rd party applications
• From http://electro-music.com/forum/post-380710.html#380710:

Now I’m trying to create the schematics in TINA or EAGLE, export the netlist and import it from VeeCAD for a stripboard layout. If this doesn’t work I will try to design the stripboard manually from the schematics, but I’m afraid that won’t be easy.

Software

See also What a Cad! for general circuit design and PCB layout applications, which, in general, can also be used for stripboard layout.

• EagleCAD
• KiCad
• DIYLC
• VeeCAD
• TinyCAD
• gEDA – an interesting opensource application
• DXF
• PCD-RND (can import Eagle files)
• LochMaster – from the look of it, overpriced software

From Hackaday – Eagle to KiCad made easy

The FOSS PCB layout editor PCB-RND is now able to load binary format Eagle layouts and libraries, as well as XML format layouts and libraries.

The code for this import capability was written out of concerns for legacy designs and user contributed libraries and OSHW projects in the information commons that could be fenced off by the new licence changes for Eagle.

PCB-RND can also load Protel Autotrax/Easytrax layouts, Kicad legacy format and s-expression format layouts, and gEDA PCB layouts. It can also export layouts in Protel Autotrax, Kicad s-expression and gEDA PCB formats, along with its own native file format.

PCB-RND is written in C89 with an emphasis on supporting portability. It can drive GTK2, GTK3, lesstif and GL user interfaces, or run headless from the CLI for batch processing.

Cheapest on eBay

• 9T 25H
  • 5 x Vero Type Strip Board Stripboard 25 x 64 Veroboard, 25×64 5 pcs, £1.28 + £0.98 – now £1.39/1.33/1.29/1.25 (for 5/10/15/20 pieces) +£0.99 – cheapest for 20
  • 5 x 25x64mm Strip Board Printed Circuit PCB Vero Prototyping 9 Tracks by 25 Hole, £2.30 +£0 (£0.46 each)
  • 10 x Electronics Prototyping Stripboard 25x64mm 9 Tracks x 25 Holes Veroboard, £2.49+£1.49 (£0.398 each)
  • 20 x Electronics Prototyping Stripboard Vero 25x64mm 9 Tracks 25 Holes Arduino, £4.99+£1.45 (£0.322 each)
  • 5pcs Universal Bakelite Circuit Board DIY Prototype PCB Prototyping Track Plate, £1.09/1.07/1.04/1.01 +£0 for 5/10/15/20 – cheapest from China
• 26T 34H – odd size
  • 5pcs 70mm x 90mm Stripboard PCB Prototype Strip Copper DIY Printed Circuit Board, £3.32 (AU $5.98)
  • 5pcs 70mm x 90mm Stripboard Prototype Strip Copper PCB Printed Circuit Board, US $1.53, Approximately £1.22 (I won one of these) – very good quality board, with indexing – highly recommended
• 24T 37H
  • Copper Clad PCB Veroboard stripboard 95mm x 64mm Pack of 5, £3.99 + £0.75 (as of 2018 £6.99!) – I had purchased this before 9/8/17
  • Strip Board Printed Circuit PCB Vero Prototyping Track (Packs of 5), £4.86 + £1.99
  • Pack of 10 veroboard style copper stripboard a High Quality 64 x 95mm UK stock, £5.50+£1.75 – super cheap, I purchased this 16/11/2019
• 24T 56H
  • 5Pcs 6.5×14.5cm Stripboard board Uncut PCB Platine Single Side CircuitBoardP, £2.00 ($2.59) – No longer available 2019
  • Single Side Prototype PCB Board Stripboard Veroboard Uncut DIY Circuit Board Set, £2.87, ($3.59, normally $3.78)
  • AliExpress
    • £1.61 + £0 on AliExpress (11/2018)!!!, 5 Pcs 6.5×14.5cm Stripboard Veroboard Uncut PCB Platine Single Side Circuit Board. As of 2019, £1.89 As of 08/2019 £1.91 with £0.99 shipping
    • £2.55+£0, 5pcs/lot 6.4×14.4cm joint holes prototyping circuit board Stripboard Veroboard pcb Single Side Platine breadboard experiment
    • £2.44+£0, new 5pcs/lot Stripboard Veroboard vero prototype print Circuit Board 6.5×14.4cm 2.54mm breadboard platine lochraster pcb
  • Stripboard Prototyping 6.5×14.5cm uncut pcb platine Single Side circuit board 5x, £1.99 ($2.65) As of 2018,  £2.48 ($3.22)
  • 5Pcs 6.5×14.5cm Stripboard Veroboard Uncut PCB Platine Single Side Circuit AF, £2.24 ($2.90)
• 35T 61H 2 x Strip Matrix Vero Board Large 100 x 160mm Quality, £3.55 + £1.30
• 35T 96H 2 x Strip Matrix Vero Board Extra Large 100 x 250mm Quality, £6.80 + £1.35 (G00fie is cheaper, see below)
• 36T 92H Bestlanka
  • 240 x 100mm Big Size Stripboard Prototype project circuit PCB Japan Copper Vero, $4.99
  • 2pcs Big Size Stripboard Prototype Arduino project circuit Copper Vero 24x10cm, $8.99
  • 4pcs Big Size Project Stripboard Prototype Circuit Single Side Vero Bords Copper, $18.00 ($4.50 each)
• 36T 92H Bestpoint87
  • Big Size Stripboard Prototype Project Circuit PCB Japan Copper Vero 1st CLASS, $4.90/8.90/12.00/19.75 £3.67/£6.67/£8.99/£14.80 for 1/2/3/5 pcs (100×240) 36T ($4.90/$4.45/$4.00/$3.95 each) (£3.67/£3.33/£2.99/£2.96 each)
• 63T 108H
  • 18x30cm Stripboard Prototype paper circuit Board Breadboard vero joint hole FR4, $9.98
  • 18x30cm Single Side Prototype PCB Tinned DIY Universal FR4 Printed Circuit Board, $6.69 (this board may not have tracks)
• G00fie
  • 32T 96H 1x 100 x 250mm Long Stripboard Sim 2 Vero Strip Board PCVE-01 Loc=035, £4.30
  • 32T 96H 2x 100 x 250mm Long Stripboard Sim 2 Vero Strip Board PCVE-01 Loc=035, £7.99 (£4.00 each)
  • Sim2 Veroboard Stripboard PCB Copper 0.1″ Matrix 1mm Hole 5 Sizes Pls Select, for 25 x 64 10 pcs, £4.30 + Free
  • Sim2 Veroboard Stripboard PCB Copper 0.1″ Matrix 1mm Hole 5 Sizes Pls Select, for
    • 25 x 64 9T25H 1/4/10 pcs, £0.99/2.30/4.50 + Free
    • 64 x 95 24T 37H 1/4/10pcs, £1.65/5.40/10.90 + Free
    • 95 x 127 36T 50H
    • 100×160 35T 61H
    • 100 x 250 35T96H £4.20/12.10/30.45 for 1/4/10 (£4.20/3.02/3.04)
    • 95 x 432 36T 170H
• 36T 92H 3x Stripboard 10×24.5cm Prototype paper uncut hole circuit Board Breadboard vero, $9.99
• 45T 179H 1 x 119x455mm Very Large Stripboard 46 Tracks x 179 Holes Veroboard Prototyping, £8.99 + £2.99
• 36T 170H STRIPBOARD 95mm X 432mm, £6.75 + £2.75

Veropins

• 100 x PCB Vero Board Terminal Pins Prototype, £2.95+£0
• Vero Single Sided Terminal Pins Barbed Pressfit Retention 1.32mm Dia Hole x1000, £22.39+£0

Pack of PCB Solder In Take Off Pins AKA Vero Pins Single & Double Sided PCVP cm-, £3.50

Pack of PCB Solder In Take Off Pins AKA Vero Pins 100 x Double Sided CM19, £4.90

Screw terminals could be used, as they offer greater mechanical strengths as they are two pins,

• 20PCS/LOT KF301-2P KF301-5.0-2P KF301 Screw 2Pin 5.0mm Straight Pin PCB Screw Terminal Block Connector Blue and green, £0.82/£0.97 +£0.42
• 10Pcs/lot KF301-5.0MM 2P KF301-3P Pitch 5.0mm Straight Pin 2P 3P 4P Screw PCB Terminal Block Connector Blue Green, £0.45+£0 (£0.045 each)
• 10 PCS KF301- 2P screw 5.0mm terminal block 2 Pin 3 Pin Spliceable pcb terminal block Connector, £0.49 +£0 (£0.049 each)
• Cheapest. Free shipping 20Pcs/lot KF301-5.0-2P KF301-3P Pitch 5.0mm Straight Pin 2P 3P Screw PCB Terminal Block Connector Blue GREEN RED, £0.78+£0 (£0.039 each)
• FREE SHIPPING 100PCS KF301-2P KF301-5.0-2P KF301 “- “Screw 2Pin 5.0mm Straight Pin PCB Screw Terminal Block Connector, £5.24 +£0 (£0.05 each)

 

Test rings

 

• Six Color 120pcs/lot PCB Board Test Point / Bead / Ring / Hoop Ceramic PCB Test Pins Ceramic Test Ring Gold Plating White Black, £2.24

 

Tools

Track tool, Stripboard PCB Veroboard Copper Track Cutter Hand Tool, £2.89+£0.75

NiftyBender Deluxe – a Tool for the Stripboard User

 

Veropin tool, a hollow point tool for pushing veroboard on to vero pins

Past purchases

• Copper Clad PCB Veroboard Stripboard 95mm X 64mm Pack of 5, was £4.74+£0 (11/8/17) now (11/19) £6.99+£0
  • 50 Pack VERO BOARD PROTOTYPING COPPER STRIP BOARD 64mm x 95mm, £49.99+£0 – Now you have to buy 50 to get near that price.
  • 10 Pack VERO BOARD PROTOTYPING COPPER STRIP BOARD 64mm x 95mm, £9.99+£0