[Bglug] soldering course

[ted leslie]

As you approach this as a "hobby" i would also be way more inclined to look
at wire-wrapping. You can approach wire wrapping by seat of your pants,
knowing you can "edit" easy later. You can design on the fly.
If i took 10 people and introduced them as electronics as a hobby via WW
and solder/pcb, i would expect 9/10 WW to be happy and stick with it, and
1/10 stick with it in solder. You have already expressed your frustrations
with solder, so that is already a strong hint.
As for expensive solder rigs, i would guess a 500$ one from 90's can be
found used for <100$ now, and the safety and benefit would out-way the
extra cost 10 fold, but it also may be hard to get them, don't know demand
supply.
I don't know of any project (assuming self design) that solder/pcb would be
easier then WW. You can create WW project in mere hours from start to end,
some in 10's of minutes if basic.
Now having said all this, you put your project in a case, and want to
attach a power supply, etc, at some point it probably doesn't hurt to
solder, but personally I see no use of it.
In university, i was fortunate that i first used a WW placement system, all
i had to do was press a button when I confirmed the wrapper was on the
post, much else was done auto. When I did it manually , i still found it
easy,
but maybe that is just me. You will have a lot of fun with WW, I just can't
say the same about solder. Some even do "big" projects on those bread
boards, (press wire, no wrap or solder) and I know they make bread board
break outs for the pie and stuff.
Maybe you can start via bread -> wire -> pcb (send away) -> pcb self etch,
so where how you progress. Worst thing would be to get frustrated and not
do it (to some degree).

-tl



On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Logan Streondj <streondj at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if there are any courses on electronics soldering in the
> area.
>
> I've tried soldering in the past,
> but often I end up burning myself,
> and probably frying the board I'm working with.
>
> So my confidence for soldering if fairly low,
> but if there was some kind of course,
> where I could build up confidence through practice,
> like making a hundred plus solder connections,
> over the course of a few weeks,
> that would be nice.
>
> My ideal goal would be able to build a arduino board, like the $50 robot
> http://www.societyofrobots.com/step_by_step_robot.shtml
>
> I tried doing it before but couldn't get it to boot,
> I'm afraid I may have damaged components by heating up the board too
> much while soldering.
>
> I think I might have a bad capacitor on my odroid -- occasionally it
> destroys peripherals and decapicitates ethernet :-|,
> If I could swap it for a better one that would be great.
> But due to my rather low confidence with soldering skills,
> I'm not confident that I can do it without bricking my odroid.
>
> Also things like knowing what kind of wires, and where to get them and
> the various testing equipment, as well as how to use it to see if
> you've made a good connection.
>
> As well the little things, like I read that soldering is not meant to
> be a physical connection, in that case, what is meant to be the
> physical connection?
>
> Thanks,
> - --
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if there are any courses on electronics soldering in the
> area.
>
> I've tried soldering in the past,
> but often I end up burning myself,
> and probably frying the board I'm working with.
>
> So my confidence for soldering if fairly low,
> but if there was some kind of course,
> where I could build up confidence through practice,
> like making a hundred plus solder connections,
> over the course of a few weeks,
> that would be nice.
>
> My ideal goal would be able to build a arduino board, like the $50 robot
> http://www.societyofrobots.com/step_by_step_robot.shtml
>
> I tried doing it before but couldn't get it to boot,
> I'm afraid I may have damaged components by heating up the board too
> much while soldering.
>
> I think I might have a bad capacitor on my odroid -- occasionally it
> destroys peripherals and decapicitates ethernet :-|,
> If I could swap it for a better one that would be great.
> But due to my rather low confidence with soldering skills,
> I'm not confident that I can do it without bricking my odroid.
>
> Also things like knowing what kind of wires, and where to get them and
> the various testing equipment, as well as how to use it to see if you've
> made a good connection.
>
> As well the little things, like I read that soldering is not meant to be
> a physical connection, in that case, what is meant to be the physical
> connection?
>
> Thanks,
> - --
> Logan Streondj,
> A dream of Gaia's future.
> blog: http://joyfullifestyle.ca
> twitter: https://twitter.com/streondj
>
> Speakable Programming for Every Language:
> github: https://github.com/elspru/spel
> intro: http://wyn.bot.nu/spel/src/vocab/gen/start.html
>
>
> You can use encrypted email with me,
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