I soldered everything on a perfboard. Usually I make PCBs for my projects, but since I don't expect to need more than one of these critters I decided to try a perfboard. I discovered how annoying and time consuming it is to link two pads together with solder.

I had to use some wire in order to get the pads linked, the only thing I had was stranded wire, so I stripped some, took out the tiny wires and used those. The wire gauge is tiny, but it works so...