PRESS, REVIEWS, AND PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET PLAYING WITH IT
What other people have said about it
I am not paying any of these people. They just wrote about it (or filmed it, or unboxed it, or stuck it in a gift guide) because they thought it was cool, which is honestly the highest praise a piece of hardware can get. Click through and read what they actually said, don't just take my word for it.
IN WRITING
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Hackster.io — Prototyping Magic
Read the Hackster reviewGareth Halfacree's huge hands-on review of the original Jumperless. "The Jumperless is the closest thing to magic you're likely to put on your workbench, and it's only getting better." Covers the crossbar matrix, Wokwi integration, probe mode, ADCs/DACs, the routing limits — and yes, the price.
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Make: Magazine — Guide to Boards 2026
Read the Make: guideJumperless V5 made the Make: Vol. 95 print Guide to Boards as a "Bonkers boujee breadboard." David Groom calls out the V5 probe, the new 40-pin adapter, the OLED, the connected-computer command line, the onboard MicroPython interpreter — and the Doom port.
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Arduino Blog — Make prototyping a breeze
Read the Arduino postThe official Arduino blog covered the original Jumperless back in August 2023, comparing it to an FPGA ("real hardware connections that the user can reconfigure with the push of a button") and walking through the Wokwi netlist workflow with the Arduino Nano header.
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Hackaday — V5 Readies For Launch
Read the Hackaday post"Jumperless V5 lets you prototype like a nerdy wizard that can see electricity and conjure jumpers wherever you want." Donald Papp covered the V5 launch; the original Jumperless also took 2nd place in the 2023 Hackaday Prize.
ON VIDEO
People filming themselves using it
Watching someone else poke at a Jumperless is the fastest way to understand what it actually does. Here are the videos that have been made about it so far, roughly in order of how many people have seen them.
Zack Freedman — Spam Folder Review
Alex Lynd — "The Breadboard that Wires Itself (and runs DOOM)"
A dedicated 12-minute walkthrough recorded at Supercon. Alex covers the CH446Q crossbar switches, the RP2350 upgrade, PIO, the V5 probe, the Magic Eye tube analog demo, and the Doom port. The hardware wasn't even close to being production-ready at this point.
Electromaker Show — V5 Creator Interview
Electromaker also wrote a long companion article about the V5's dual ±8V rails, 450+ addressable LEDs, the high-speed probing system, and the RP2350 upgrade.
The Amp Hour #689 — Deep dive with Chris Gammell
An hour and fifteen minutes of nerding out about CH446Q crossbar switches (50 MHz!), the custom-manufactured spring clips with holes for the LEDs, the L272 power-opamp programmable supplies, the four-wire probe that multiplexes six signals over an audio jack, and the routing algorithm. If you want to understand how the thing works, this is the one.
DAY//GLOW — Jumperless Jam (Alex Glow & David Groom)
A three-and-a-half-hour live hardware build session — and a useful cautionary tale for what happens if you don't skim the docs first (a completely valid approach). David Groom is also the one who put the V5 into the Make: Guide to Boards 2026, so this is basically the long version of that.
MORE COVERAGE
Articles, posts, and gift guides
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Tindie Blog — A Beautiful Solderless Breadboard
Read the Tindie postThe original Jumperless coverage from Tindie back in 2023. Twelve CH446Q ICs on the reverse, two INA219 current/voltage sensors, glorious RGB LEDs, and "if this occasionally might cause you an issue, don't worry, you can also use a good old-fashioned jumper wire."
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Straithe — Unboxing the OG Jumperless
Read the unboxingA loving, photo-by-photo unboxing of the original Jumperless. Brown paper with the stenciled logo, the personalized label, the QR codes inside the lid, the glittery pink USB cable, and the probe kit waiting to be soldered together.
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Electromaker — Breadboards Without Wires
Read the Electromaker articleRich at Electromaker walks through what makes the V5 a real step up over the original: ±8V dual rails, the RP2040B upgrade, more GPIO, the multiplexed probing system, and 450+ addressable LEDs giving real-time visual feedback for every connection.
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CNX Software
Read the CNX article"A one-of-a-kind, programmable breadboard." Embedded systems news site covered the V5 specs and crowdfunding launch — the RP2350B, the ±8V rails, the built-in power supply.
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CircuitDigest — Prototyping Made Easy
Read the CircuitDigest pieceDetailed pre-launch writeup of the V5: 8 Wokwi project slots polled for changes, four programmable ±8V supplies, five measurement channels, four 12-bit DACs, three 12-bit ADCs, and the audio-jack probe with its needle, button and LED.
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Alpenglow Industries — 2025 Gift Guide
See the gift guide"Jumperless V5 lets you get circuits from your brain into hardware with so little friction it feels like you're just thinking them into existence … So yeah, wizard shit." Featured in Alpenglow's 2025 gift guide for the maker or LED-lover in your life.