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Bye Bye Breadboard

As I achieve a lot of progress in the last two weeks I've started preparation to move outside from my lab. But all components (Nucleo board, expansion boards, GPS receiver) and my breadboard require some packaging, so they can work on the road.

The first thing was to drop the breadboard as it was the biggest part. I've reused a cable from an old PC. The cable terminals has a nice spacing, that fit very well USB serial adapter terminals on one side for debug purpose and it can play a role of a breadboard on other side.

Then I've closed JP1 jumper as described by Douglas Wong in one of his previous blogs before adding an USB power bank. Then I've reused a transparent box from sweats to house all main components.

it is now relatively compact to bring it outside and ready for the roadtest.