Soldering Tutorial

This repository contains all files for our soldering kits and courses. Please feel free to download and use everything you need.

We've tried to collect and create tutorials with different difficulties and are offering SMD and DIP soldering kits.

For an overview of all kits with manuals and interactive pcb views got to: https://binary-kitchen.github.io/SolderingTutorial

If you want to buy soldering Kits you can find some here: shop.blinkyparts.com

Soldering Kits

ATX Breakout Board

Handy Breakout Board to get all the important voltages from a standard ATX power supply.

Difficulty: 4/5

Arrow SMD

Small soldering kit with an arrow on it from https://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AntiKippenLights-Mini.

Difficulty: 4/5

Axolotl Badge

Easy RGB soldering kit with the best Axolotl!

Difficulty: 2/5

Cat in a Box 1

A Cat in a box easy SMD kit. Bright glowing LED-eyes are watching every step! With this soldering kit it is super easy to learn SMD soldering.

Difficulty: 3/5

Cat in a Box 2

Can you please turn around? If you stare, the cat will stare back in all colours of the rainbow due to RGB-LEDs on the back. The soldering kit is very simple and easy to assemble.

Difficulty: 2/5

Cube DIP

Simple LED cube consisting of 27 RGB LEDs in a 3x3x3 configuration. No programming needed.

Difficulty: 3/5

Dice DIP

Electronic dice which uses button bouncing and timing for randomness.

Difficulty: 3/5

Dice Micro Controller DIP

Dice with micro controller. Electronic dice which uses C random generator.

Difficulty: 2/5

Ermer Beeper DIP

The Ermer Beeper is a very neat continuity tester or beeper.

Difficulty: 2/5

Heart DIP

Small soldering kit with an heart on from https://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AntiKippenLights-Atmel

Difficulty: 2/5

Heart SMD

Small soldering kit with an heart on it from http://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AKL-Mini

Difficulty: 4/5

Humo - Solder-Fume Exctractor

This simple solder fume extractor just needs a PC fan and a solder fume filter. If you add some goggly eyes the fume extractor has a pretty nice smiling face. It is optimised for laser cut parts.

Difficulty: 2/5

I Can Solder DIP

Very easy soldering kit with three LEDs. Can be used as pin button.

Difficulty: 1/5

Katie The Cat

A wonderful and easy soldering Kit with two different eye-colours.

Difficulty: 2/5

Kitchen Head SMD

Small soldering kit using SMD components with the kitchen head on it.

Difficulty: 4/5

Moon Cat

Excuse me? What are you staring at? This wonderful kit is very simple in terms of circuitry, but the result is simply hilarious.

Difficulty: 2/5

Nibble++

A simple PCB to test your SMD hand-soldering skills. Going down to sand grain sized 01005 SMD parts, this button is a challenge for experienced "soldiers" and those who want to become one.

Difficulty: 6/5

Nibble Peg DIP

Very easy soldering Kit using simple Tools and nearly no soldering knowledge is needed.

Difficulty: 1/5

Nibble Peg DIP with On/Off Switch

Easy soldering Kit using simple Tools and nearly no soldering knowledge is needed.

Difficulty: 2/5

Owl Thief THT

A simple joule thief circuit on the back of an owl. If you solder everything right, you can empty old batteries and make the eyes glow orange.

Difficulty: 2/5

Push-It DIP

Simon Says clone with (optional) multiplayer mode

Difficulty: 2/5

Rainbow Butterfly

A wonderful rainbow Butterfly. The wings are enlighted by RGB-LEDs from the back of the PCB. The soldering kit is very simple and easy to assemble.

Difficulty: 2/5

Rainbow Unicorn 1

This unicorn will brighten up your life. The hair is glowing in all colours of the rainbow due to RGB-LEDs on the back. The soldering kit is very simple and easy to assemble.

Difficulty: 2/5

Ring Light SMD

A simple SMD learning kit where a light chases around a circle.

Difficulty: 4/5

Rainbow Rocket

Fly to the moon with this RGB rocket badge.

Difficulty: 2/5

Saw-Tooth Organ DIP

Some Transistors creating a saw tooth wave enabling a very simple organ which you can play like a piano with a stylus.

Difficulty: 2/5

Shitty Robot

A very easy circuit to power a little robot with a vibration motor.

Difficulty: 1/5

License

This work is licensed under different licenses. Please see subfolders for details and LICENSE.md file in the top level directory for all used license files.

Copyright and Authorship

Please consider README.md in sub-folders for the Copyright and Authorship of the specific project.

Authors

Boards:

Arne Rossius arne@blinkenarea.org
Thomas Basler noby@binary-kitchen.de
Francesco Truzzi http://www.truzzi.me
Timo Schindler https://www.timoschindler.de
Thomas Schmid

TeX-Code:

Marei Peischl marei@binary-kitchen.de https://github.com/TeXhackse

Comic:

Mitch Altmann http://cornfieldelectronics.com
Jeff Keyzer http://mightyohm.com/blog/
Andie Nordgren andie.nordgren@gmail.com

Manuals:

Michael Pajewski
Marei Peischl marei@binary-kitchen.de https://github.com/TeXhackse
Timo Schindler https://www.timoschindler.de
Hannes https://github.com/misamura