Soldering by beginner

August 27th, 2008

Thingamakits came in the post this morning so I popped into Maplins with the instructions to get supplies and this evening managed to achieve this.

My First Soldering

If you’re a soldering expert and this makes your eyes water then I apologise. Haven’t tested it yet. Hope that black patch on the middle-right isn’t problematic…

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  1. 1 Adrian McEwen
    Aug 27th, 2008 at 10:14 am

    Ah, I’m sure I’ll have something that looks worse when I finally break out the soldering iron - I’ve managed to get by on solderless breadboard for my hardware project so far.

  2. 2 Steve Woodward
    Aug 28th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    It’s a massive geeky thrill when you apply power to something you’ve soldered up, and lights come on and actually works.

    I’ve never built a thingamakit but I soldered up an x0xb0x last year: all I can say is go slowly and check the polar components (if there are any) are in the right way. I had a couple of transistors in backwards in my x0xb0x which stopped it from working, thankfully it didn’t fry anything.

  3. 3 Rich Batsford
    Sep 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 am

    good work!

    theres a new post on the Project X website detailing some of the little hand held synthesizer units (buzzboxes) which are going to play a role in our Sept 13th event.

    At one point, the audience is going to playing all 36 of them!

    check out:

    http://www.projectxpresents.com/2008/09/02/a-hand-held-synthesizer

    and

    http://www.projectxpresents.com/participants/the-buzz-boxes/

    cheers
    Xx

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