Anyone who has spent a night breadboarding knows the drill โ you sit down to build a circuit and immediately spend twenty minutes hunting for the right resistor, an LED that still works, and the jumper wire you swore was on the table a second ago.
Cakeboard was my attempt to fix that. It is a layered "cake" of trays that sits underneath a breadboard and keeps every component you need โ resistors, LEDs, capacitors, jumper wires โ right there where you are working. Hence the name: a board, but stacked like a cake.
I built this during my engineering college years between 2013 and 2014. It started as a workbench frustration and ended up as a small electronics project that I kept iterating on. Below are the three features I cared about most.