Cakeboard

A college project ยท 2013 โ€“ 2014

Project
Cakeboard prototype

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.

Cakeboard component storage trays

Feature 1 โ€” Components, always at hand

Store all the components you need for breadboarding right there, no more forgetting.

Built-in fuse switch on the Cakeboard

Feature 2 โ€” Built-in fuse switch

Switch directly with a built-in fuse to prevent breadboard burn.

Wire cutter clipped under the Cakeboard

Feature 3 โ€” Wire cutter clip

Also clip the wire cutter right below the Cakeboard.