Project: Electronics Bash - #12 - Soldering

You now what's really good at sticking two pieces of metal together so they make good electrical contact? No, not glue. Not tape. Not chewing gum. More metal melted and flowed with a hot iron, that's what!

This week's stream fill focus on soldering - the fundamental act of bonding metal parts together. It's easy to do well... and easy to do poorly. We'll cover topics like:

Hand soldering skills
Types and mixes of solder
Soldering iron and tip species
Soldering thru-hole and surface-mount parts
Soldering safety
Hot air and soldering rework
Desoldering with hot air, solder braid, and solder suckers

This is the space where I'll be posting code samples and circuit layouts sometime in advance of the stream, for those who want to follow along more directly. You can expect the code and formatting here to change up to a couple hours before the stream as the plan for the evening comes together.

Materials

Really, you should just read the soldering section of my writeup from the fall on my preferred electronics workbench tools. But here are some specific supplies that I suspect I'll be referencing:

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And some more details about some code to come.

Click here to view code on Github

Project: Electronics Bash - #12 - Soldering

Materials

Soldering Irons:

Solder:

Soldering Accessories:

Code

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