Hi... Fredshead is a treasure cave (fred`s shed??) of gadgets. Most
enjoyable to explore. There is a footnote about a 6 watt soldering iron
described as USB . It has a USB connector but I feel that a separate USB
wall wart is required. The iron takes over 1 Amp from 5 Volt supply when
heating.
The stem of the iron is extremely slim, it would be simple to shroud it with
woven fibre insulating sleeving, such as is used in electric cookers, thus
protecting user from burns.
john
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I did some light browsing around online a couple of nights ago and found this
from the American Printing House.
http://www.fredshead.info/2005/11/soldering-without-sight.html ;
<http://www.fredshead.info/2005/11/soldering-without-sight.html>
Chuck.
On Aug 21, 2017, at 2:38 PM, john peacocke <peacocke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You are dead right about the Raspberry-Pi being too micro populated to allow
soldering.
However, the Arduino family boards can be hitched up as well protected
buffers to the real world , insofar as the Arduino can fulfil the need .
Early models (Duemanilove) have AT 328 chips , DIL through holes. All pins
accessible by plugging.
The Lilypad Arduino, the washable wearable one, has a surface mounted chip,
but it also has a circular board with 12 huge through hole solder GPIO
pads on its periphery.
Once the Arduino has been programmed via the Pi, and several techniques
exist, then
disconnect the Pi and go ahead with the Arduino.
john
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Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Blind accessible ways for soldering
Chuck,
There is a series of articles on soldering as a blind tech at:
http://www-test.ski.org/Rehab/sktf/index.html
look for "The Soldering Series"
Although a bit old, the techniques are valid for through hole devices etc.
There is no method I know of for a bat to handle surface mount devices.
I would strongly not reccommend anybody mess with soldering directly to the
raspberrypi board, much to sensative and tight. I've been soldering for
years and I'd not try it.
But switches, connectors components with leads, through hole chips and so on
can be done with practice.
It's even fun!
Please ask more if needed.
regards
Tom Fowle WA;6IVG
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 05:51:19PM -0500, chuck winstead wrote:
Hello everyone,===========================================================
I was looking at a project I was wanting to try out, and it calls for a
little bit of soldering. Does anyone have any suggestions on soldering? I
have no usable eye sight. I mean I can see lights, motion, and colors
depending on distance. I just don???t have usable eye sight.
What would you guys recommend?
Chuck===========================================================
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