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== History == [[file:1959 VEROBOARD PATENT.jpg|thumb|upright|Veroboard patent]] By the mid-1950s, the [[printed circuit board]] (PCB) had become commonplace in electronics production.<ref name="Mint-tek-pcb-hstry">{{cite web |last1=Kearney |first1=Georgina |title=The History of Printed Circuit Boards |url=https://mint-tek.com/the-history-of-printed-circuit-boards-2/ |website=mint-tek.com |publisher=Mint Tek Circuits |access-date=24 April 2020 |date=19 February 2016 }}</ref> In early 1959, the VPE Electronics Department was formed when managing director Geoffrey Verdon-Roe hired two former [[Saunders-Roe]] Ltd employees, Peter H Winter ([[aircraft designer|aircraft design]] department) and Terry Fitzpatrick (electronics division).{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} After the failure of a project to develop machine tool control equipment, the department remained operative as a result of success with the [[invention]] and development of the new material.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} New equipment using PCBs was displayed at the 1959 Radio and Electronics Components Manufacturers Federation (RECMF) Exhibition held in [[The Dorchester]] Hotel, Park Lane, London.<ref>The Dorchester Hotel has no existing record for 1959 events.</ref> The usual configuration for most of the PCBs of that time had components placed in a regular pattern with the circuit formed by maze-like conductive pathways. An interesting alternative, proposed by Fitzpatrick after visiting the RECMF Exhibition on behalf of VPE, envisaged a standard circuit board carrying straight-line conductors on which the components could be suitably dispersed and connected to the conductors to produce the required circuit.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} A [[patent]] application was immediately filed 25 May 1959<ref name="Patent.image">{{cite web |last1=London |first1=The Patent Office |title=Veroboard Patent |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1959_VEROBOARD_PATENT.jpg |access-date=24 April 2020 |format=scan |date=27 November 2013}}</ref> and the invention was developed for Vero by associates Winter, Fitzpatrick and machine shop engineers. The advent of the [[Arduino]] [[integrated development environment]], designed to introduce computer programming to newcomers unfamiliar with software development, presents a new opportunity to use Veroboard.<ref>{{cite web |title='Veroduino'| url=http://nathan.chantrell.net/20110819/build-your-own-arduino-for-under-10/|author=Chantrell, Nathan}}</ref> Arduino development regularly involves the use of '[[Arduino shield|shield]]s', which plug into the main Arduino board using standard 0.1 in header connections and carry project-specific I/O hardware. However the Arduino design makes this difficult, as one of the four header sockets is offset from the 0.1 in spacing of the others by 0.05 in. The British company [[Vero Technologies Ltd]] currently holds the UK trademark for Veroboard.<ref>{{UK trademark|824961}}, Intellectual Property Office website</ref> In the Americas the Veroboard trademark is now held by the Canadian company Pixel Print Ltd. of Vancouver.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pixel Print|url=http://www.veroboard.com/|author=Veroboard.com}}</ref>
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