A frequently-heard refrain is that ESP32 modules are so inconvenient because with their 1.0″ spacing between header rows, in the standard installation, their footprint covers all but one horizontal row of holes on a breadboard; and kids these days like using fly-wire-style breadboard jumpers rather than trace-style breadboard jumpers (which would work underneath it).
This should be regarded as irritating rather than intractable. I present here two workarounds and leave the discovery of more as an exercise for the reader.
Option 1, remove one power-strip row from a modular breadboard and dovetail-pin that breadboard onto another. Install the ESP module over the new “power gutter” and revel in the luxury of plenty of rows for connecting jumpers.
Option 2, SAW THROUGH THAT and revel in the luxury of plenty of rows for connecting jumpers.
Footnote: Use a hacksaw. Its finer teeth cut without snagging like a wood-cutting saw’s teeth would do; I don’t want to contemplate the kind of workholding it would take for me to feel safe using a tablesaw or circular saw on this; and you would be so startled the moment a wood-cutting bandsaw’s teeth first engage in the edge of the plastic and the blade leaps toward you.
