Learn the basics and soldering tips for beginners to help with projects around the farm. Get prepared to learn how to use a soldering iron for the first time and get started in the craft of welding.

If you're planning to take up soldering as a hobby, you'll need a beginner-friendly soldering iron that's also affordable.

Order your pcb design at jlcpcb for $2 (24 hours turnaround time). This is the most complex or detailed soldering I've done so far, the QFN20 package is very small but still not impossible to solder ...

The TS100 is a popular entry into the new breed of small temperature-controlled soldering irons that, at least for some of us, have started to replace the bulky soldering stations of old.

Order your pcb design at jlcpcb for $2 (24 hours turnaround time). This is the most complex or detailed soldering I've done so far, the QFN20 package is very small but still not impossible to solder ...

I've been playing around with some arduino projects on breadboards, but I now need to do a bit of soldering. Enough to build some simple circuits out of verro (?) board, populate an arduino ...