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Like many people who solder regularly, I decided years ago to upgrade from a basic iron and invest in a soldering station. My RadioShack digital station has served me well …read more Continue reading Review: iFixit’s FixHub May Be The Last Soldering Iron You Ever Buy
It is common these days to have a soldering iron where you can set the temperature using some sort of digital control. But how accurate is it? Probably pretty accurate, …read more Continue reading How Hot is That Soldering Iron?
If you’re big into the soldering iron scene, you’ve probably heard of the AxxSolder project. Now, it’s been updated with a whole host of nifty new features. It’s AxxSolder 3.0! …read more Continue reading AxxSolder 3.0 Now Takes USB Power Delivery
There was a time when soldering stations were unusual in hobby labs. These days, inexpensive stations are everywhere. [Kerry Wong] looks at the TS1C station, which is tiny and cordless. …read more Continue reading Inside a Cordless Soldering Station
For most of us, the first soldering iron we pick up to start working on electronics has essentially no features at all. Being little more than resistive heaters plugged straight …read more Continue reading Open-Source Firmware For Soldering Irons
Power tool batteries are a convenient portable power supply for all manner of different things. [Zachary Goode] noticed that Ryobi was using them to power soldering irons, but no such …read more Continue reading Portable Soldering Station Runs On Drill Batteries
One of the first tools that is added to a toolbox when working on electronics, perhaps besides a multimeter, is a soldering iron. From there, soldering tools can be added …read more Continue reading Finessing a Soldering Iron to Remove Large Connectors
With soldering irons being so incredibly useful, and coming on the heels of the success of a range of portable, all-in-one soldering irons from the likes of Waveshare and Pine64, …read more Continue reading Hacking a €15 8051-Based Portable Soldering Iron With Custom Firmware
[PjotrStrog]’s rugged Pinecil / TS100 storage case is the perfect printable accessory to go with a hacker’s choice of either the Pine64 Pinecil, or the Miniware TS100 soldering irons. There …read more Continue reading Printable Case For Pinecil And TS100 Soldering Irons (Mis)Uses A 608 Bearing
If you’ve ever welded, you know that some welders blow a shield gas over the work for different reasons. For example, you often use a gas to displace oxygen from …read more Continue reading A Nitrogen Soldering Iron Review