A few months ago we brought word that [Electronoobs] was working on his own open source alternative to pocket-sized temperature controlled soldering irons like the TS100. Powered by the ATMega328p ...

At this point you’ve almost certainly seen one of these low-cost portable soldering irons, perhaps best exemplified by the TS100, a pocket-sized temperature controlled iron that can be had for as ...

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/23886594 w=640&h=360] With Google’s Open Accessory Toolkit rolling up Android and Arduino together, there’s a lot of attention being ...

These three 3D printing projects are far from the only prints I’ll do on my Arduino journey, I’m sure. I’m already looking for the next prints to do, and even working on making some of my own. But, ...

I know how to solder, but I do not always want to solder, and I think there are a lot of folks like me. Even if the act itself can be done (and undone, and redone), the friction of hauling out the ...

Assume that you are moving towards a complex microcontroller project bundled with blinkers, beepers, and a display panel. To link a standard 16×2 LCD directly with the microcontroller, for instance ...

Soldering is rapidly becoming the skill of a bygone era. Much like the ability to drive a car with a manual transmission, read a map, or write a check, Gen Z is learning less and less about how to ...