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Breadboard Bench
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A Workbench That Refuses to Be Guessed At

A 3D-printed electronics bench — DIN rail, deck ladder, clip-on modules — built under one rule: never print a part until every fit it depends on has passed on something smaller. The interesting half isn't the bench, it's the apparatus around it. Parametric CAD writes its own Bambu Studio projects with per-part wall and infill regimes baked in, a mesh-level assembly simulator rehearses the build before any plastic is spent, and the numbers that decide the design are tapped into iPad sheets at the printer that save straight to disk and work the constant out for you. 525 g of plastic across ten staged plates, of which 146 g is gauges that never leave the drawer.

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The bench: end frames, DIN rail, deck ladder, and clip-on modules on a common spine.
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Gauges Before Parts
The Rule

The build plan is ten plates, ordered so that every plate proves the fits the next one depends on. A 3 g coupon protects an 87 g ladder. The first plate is 7 g of TPU whose only job is to reveal how much this printer over-extrudes, because that one number propagates into every pocketed part in the design.

What Ships
→Ten staged plates, each gated on the one before it
→146 g of gauges protecting 313 g of structure
→Constants recorded per plate, never carried in someone's head
Impact
A wrong fit costs a 3 g reprint instead of an 87 g one — and is found on purpose rather than at assembly.