Breadboard / Banana Jack Cable

In this Instructable, we'll be looking at making a very useful component for anyone who makes a lot of test circuits on a breadboard. The Breadboard / Banana Jack Cable is very quick and easy to make, not to mention cost effective. (Forgive the less than perfect quality photos, my cellphone is of terrible quality)

Step 1 Gathering your Tools / Materials

The following is a list of what you'll need to build this; all of which are fairly easy to come by:

Tools:
Wire Cutters / Strippers
Wire Crimpers
Soldering Iron / Solder
Electrical Tape or Shrink Wrap (Your Preference)

Materials:
Hookup Wire (I took my wire from a scrap ATX power supply; It's pretty good quality and works well for this project)
Banana Jack Plugs
D-Sub Pins (I had to take a photo from (parts.digikey.com) since my camera couldn't take a decent picture of one - These pins can be found with most D-Sub connector kits found at Radioshack / The Source)

Comments

[pfred2]

Often a piece of hookup wire and an alligator clip and I'm done myself. Not to say that I haven't done what this Instructable describes plenty of times too!

Here's some prior art:

[8bit]

Wow, nice massive breadboard layout. Do you ever use all of it? 

[pfred2]

Its a bit more crowded today.

http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/8305/tb6560ahqnoflash1.jpg

But no, so far I've never been at a loss for tie points on it yet.

[theformatter]

Good use for all those old D-sub pins I have laying around from aprevious life.   Nice!