Ordering a board with perfect spaced pads to use an SMD connector takes a few days of patience unless you live near a PCB prototyping facility. With striped prototyping boards, you can stick a MircoMaTch or similar connector into your breadboard in under five minutes. 😉 First cut a small piece from the prototype board….
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Snowflake Component Side
Today I show you a little bit longer video about the assembly of the component side of the snowflake panel. Compared with the very small 0402 LEDs (1mm x 0.5mm) on the front side, the component side contains just regular 0805 resistors and capacitors. The first part of the video shows how I apply the…
Soldering Boldport Club project “The Matrix”
For the Boldport Club project “The Matrix” I used hot air soldering for the first time. After some experimenting and with help from Boldport Club members, it worked really well. I could colder the 120 LEDs in less than 10 minutes to the board. I made a video about the process. Please keep in mind, I…
Video: Soldering Boldport Project “Touchy”
I made a short video how I solder the Boldport project “Touchy”. It is a SMD project with a quite difficult to solder chip. For the first half of the assembly, I did not notice that the solder tip was no screwed tight, so the heating of the tip was not optimal. Click the link…
Soldering for Show
This article is about soldering for show. While usually you solder electronic components to make the best possible connection and keep everything working, this is just to make a great visual result. If you want to take photos from your projects or would like to impress a customer with a nice looking prototype, you have to solder with more…
Boldport Tap — Second Try
If you already saw the soldering video, here two photos of the result. To get this result, I was inspired by the way Saar from Boldport was soldering his own projects, I adapted his technique. After initial soldering, I flush cut carefully the wire as close as possible to the board. Cutting off any solder…
Soldering Boldport Tap
Here a short video soldering the Boldport Project “Tap”. Here you can see the PCBite PCB holder in action.
Video: Assembling Final Outmoded Sequencer PCB
Here a short update on the progress with the final Outmoded Sequencer project. I did the whole assembly of the final PCB and connected everything. You can see part of the soldering process in the following video: I accidentally cut a route on the bottom of the PCB, so I had to fix this with…
Boldport “The Cuttle” Arrived
Today the new project from Boldport Club arrived. It is called “The Cuttle” and it is a minimal configuration of the ATMega328-PU microcontroller with minimal elements to get it running. As usual the PCB is artfully designed in shape of a cuttlefish. Soldering was easy this time. Here some photos of the project how it arrived and…
SMD Soldering
Here a video where I solder a SMD practice board. While the 1206 and 0805 are more or less easy to solder, the really small 0603 cause a lot of troubles.