Understanding your breadboard and placement of raspberry cobbler

Its important to understand how your breadboard is internally wired before you start using it to wire things up.

If we take breadboard like this:

Then its internal wiring will look like this:

Notice that the numbered rows are all connected from a, b, c, d to e, but not across the canal over to f-g-h-i-j, on the other side of the canal its another lane.

This is how we place the raspberry cobbler on the breadboard:

When the cobbler is placed like this then each pin on the cobbler gets its own lane that is important. If each pin was not getting its own lane then you would almost certainly damage your Raspberry Pi.

When you have large breadboard then you must pay attention to if the power headers on the sides are split or not.

Large breadboard with power headers which are not split .Large breadboard with power headers which are split .

You can identify if the power headers on your breadboard are split by looking at the red and blue lines, if they have gap in the middle as shown bellow then your breadboard has split power header.