Summary of activities:
Today's class covered basic soldering techniques, some of which include:
The use of flux
determining the difference between good and bad solder jobs
how not to get injured
To test these theories we attached components haphazardly to a board thusly:
Additionally, we butchered a 5 volt power supply and soldered wires to the positive and negative ends. Then we applied heat shrink to protect the soldered connections.This tangled mess was the result:
The important part is that the wires on the left end of the picture can be used to power a breadboard! Happy melting, and see you all Wednesday.
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