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Learn to Solder: Tools and Techniques for Assembling Electronics
Learn the fundamentals of soldering―and pick up an essential skill for building electronic gadgets. You’ll discover how to preheat and tin your iron, make a good solder joint, desolder cleanly (when things don't quite go right), and how to use helping hands to hold components in place. This concise book is part of MAKE’s Getting Started with Soldering Kit. Using the tools in the kit and some electronic components, you can practice soldering while making fun blinky objects. Then show the world you just learned a new skill by wearing the Learn to Solder Skill Badge.
- GenresTechnologyEngineering
48 pages, Paperback
First published April 22, 2012
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April 20, 2018
Not a total waste of time but definitely just about the same as finding a website or YouTube video to watch. The pictures aren’t that great. It feels like they made a manual to go with the Makey Robot Badge and then got really excited and decided to capitalize on it. Glad I read the library’s copy and didn’t buy it.
January 4, 2018
If you Don’t know anything about soldering, this is the place to start. Succinct, easy for a kid to understand, and a good primer on the topic. I thought it was nicely done and presented well.
March 19, 2017
Don't be tempted by the low price.
As a beginner, this is useless. As other people have mentioned, go to youtube and watch videos.
The book is too short to be of any value. There were 2 pictures of a good joint and 2 pictures of a bad joint. 2 pages on how to fix your mistakes.
It told us to bend the wires to help objects, like the led light, stay in place. It then told us to cut wires using the wire cutter.
One helpful thing it said was to make sure you put the wires in the right hole.
A number of pages described other projects you can build. I felt like I bought and was reading an advertisement.
As a beginner, this is useless. As other people have mentioned, go to youtube and watch videos.
The book is too short to be of any value. There were 2 pictures of a good joint and 2 pictures of a bad joint. 2 pages on how to fix your mistakes.
It told us to bend the wires to help objects, like the led light, stay in place. It then told us to cut wires using the wire cutter.
One helpful thing it said was to make sure you put the wires in the right hole.
A number of pages described other projects you can build. I felt like I bought and was reading an advertisement.
May 31, 2013
Good to remember the basics, not so much for the first timers
December 7, 2015
Succinct; didn't realize it was a 10 minute book!
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