I've never used a breadboard before, though I remember seeing one back
when I was still among the partially sighted, so I can't speak to how
useful this idea would be in practice, but I can't help wondering if a
dumb stylus with a sufficiently narrow, rigid, and non-conductive tip
could be used to count out a hole's grid position and mark the target
hole long enough to insert a wire.
Back when I could see, I liked using the tip of the mechanical pencil
I kept tucked above my ear with the graphite retracted as a stylus,
but while that worked great for resistive touchscreens, it was useless
for capacitive touchscreens(as an aside, even if you can see well
enough to use one, what's the point of a touchscreen if you can't use
any handy pointy item for precision input?), and I imagine it would be
as useless for breadboarding(I suspect the tip is to short and wide,
and I imagine most Braille Styluses wouldn't work either(again, too
wide a tip, though a Braille stylus has a nice, long tip, and every
Braille Stylus I've ever held seemed to have a metal tip, so doesn't
meet the non-conductive requirement either).
Of course, there might be some technical reason unknown to me that
would make this a bad idea regardless.
--
Sincerely,
Jeffery Wright
Bachelor of Computer Science
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
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