Stripboard planning sheet

Printed at true size — 0.1 inch between holes — so you can lay a real board on top of the grid and the holes line up. Print at 100%, not “fit to page”, then check the bar below with a ruler before you draw on it.

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Check the scale first

Measure the bar with a ruler. If it is not exactly 50 mm, the print scaling is wrong and the grid will not match a real board — print again at 100%.

34‑0410 — 9 tracks × 25 holes

34‑0411 — 24 tracks × 37 holes

Wiring schedule

One row per link wire and per off-board part.
No.	Colour	From	To	What it carries

Before you hand it in

Every net on the circuit diagram numbered, and that many tracks in use.
Every part has an item ID, the same on the layout and the schedule.
Every track the chip crosses cut, drawn as an X inside the chip outline.
Every leg in the track its net was given — checked track by track.
Every link numbered and coloured; red and black used for nothing but the supply.
Every gate input held down to 0 V unless another gate drives it.
Polarised parts the right way round.
A test point on each sub-system input and output, numbered, with its expected reading.
Sheets attached to the booklet.

Sources & credits: board sizes and hole pitch are the real boards used in class (Rapid Electronics 34‑0410 and 34‑0411, datasheet 583629_v1). The sheet's conventions — tracks across the page, a cut marked as an X on the hole, link wires coloured and numbered — follow the Stripboard Layout Planning Sheet © 2002 Electronics in Meccano (eleinmec.com); the conventions are reproduced, not the artwork. The checklist is written from the National 5 Electronics (C884 75) course and assessment material and the external verification reports, © Qualifications Scotland (SQA), reproduced for educational use. Sheet © R Stewart, 2026; © R Stewart Physics, Electronics and Engineering. Full site credits are on the credits page.