JIGMOD is an electronic circuit building system. On the original store it was organized into four main product groups: Platforms, JIGMODs (modules), Adapters, and Accessories.
According to the company’s About page, JIGMOD was created to help people succeed in electronic product development, and the company sold these products to help advance technology. JIGMOD Company is based in Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
Platforms and modules that mount together
The system is built around JIGMOD platforms in several sizes listed in the catalog—M, L, and XL—plus a JIGMOD Essentials Kit that centers on the XL Platform. Individual JIGMOD boards are designed to mount onto a platform. Every JIGMOD module page in the archive carried the same hardware note:
All JIGMODs include 4 standoffs and 4 screws for mounting to a JIGMOD platform.
That mounting pattern is the core idea: put connectors, switches, power inputs, and other parts on dedicated boards, then fasten those boards to a shared platform instead of fighting loose parts on a bare breadboard.
What kinds of modules existed
The archived catalog listed dozens of JIGMODs, including (among others) binding posts, BNC and RCA jacks, audio jacks, battery holders, switches, potentiometers, USB and RJ connectors, SD and SIM card slots, a servo interface, tactile buttons, a thumbstick, a speaker, and a proto board. Accessories included breadboards and stacker standoffs. Adapters covered Arduino and Raspberry Pi boards as well as a breadboard adapter.
A common starter configuration
The JIGMOD Essentials Kit was described as the most popular configuration requested by customers. It featured an XL Platform, two breadboards, Binding Post and Pluggable Terminal Block JIGMODs, Tactile Button and Thumbstick JIGMODs, fastener hardware, and a note to purchase an Arduino or Raspberry Pi adapter separately so a board could be fastened directly to the platform.
In short: platforms give you a stable base; JIGMODs bring breadboard-awkward parts onto mountable boards; adapters tie popular microcontroller boards into the same layout. The rest of this blog series covers the Kickstarter launch, the adapters in more detail, and a customer note from the original About page.