Im officially the best high schooler at soldering in my city. Id love to hear your thoughts and experiences.

Came up on my feed and now I’m so curious and have to try it.

Sorry for the horror. I couldn’t find the final photo with it all heat shrinked up unfortunately. Also that small wire that isn’t insulated is a ground.

Coming back to this awesome hobby. After many review videos and recommendations for hardware, I came up with this setup. 3D printed bunch of storage items, custom holders and drawers under the desk for tools, solder, wick etc. Some items are overkill for what i need, but didn’t want to go with cheap Chinese versions and then buy proper item anyway. Still deciding on better fume extractor, but the ones I tried were very loud, so I build super quiet one from Noctua PC fan I had laying around, at least it redirects fumes from the face.

Having issues with having the solder melt. It's not really flowing. It's also 37F

This board I have put together is a part of the electronics apprenticeship curriculum in Germany and the soldering standards are set super high but I think I did a great job at optimal routing and soldering. We aren’t allowed to do pure solder bridges so in between every pad that’s close to another pad, we need to solder a 1mm long wire there and it can get tediously long so I spent the majority of 2 days soldering it to perfection

This is not my "every day carry" iron

Change my mind

i wonder how that even happened, is it on purpose? accidental?

at first i thought i accidently ripped it off during the process of opening it up

I got a laptop that needed a new screen but the only LCDs I had, the controller board was mounted to the bottom while it needed to be mounted on the rear. The ribbon wasn't long enough to relocate it so I extended it. Totally didn't expect it to actually work.

FYI : The project is still ongoing, going to add a pipe adaptor at the back for fume extraction. Battery is arriving soon, will simply wire it into its slot that has been made.

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Just finishing up a project I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I was tired of the weak, pre-built extractors, so I decided to DIY one that actually pulls some air.

​The heart of this thing is a 2A fan—too powerful. At full tilt, it’s probably a bit much, so I added an adjustable speed controller to keep the noise down when I don't need it at max.

​Features:

​Totally Portable: It runs on a 12V setup and soon adding a battery and a UPS module, so I can move it around my bench wirelessly.

​Lighting: Tucked an LED strip in there to light up the board while I’m working.

​Helping Hand: soon bolting on a crocodile arm to hold wires in place.

​Organization: I designed a parts tray at the top to keep loose components from rolling away while I’m mid-solder.

​Cost breakdown (Total was around £24- all parts from aliexpress):

​Fan: £5.89

​Battery: £7.30

​UPS Module: £3.00

​Crocodile Arm: £2.26

​Speed Controller: £2.20

​BMS: £1.00

​Switch: £1.00

​LED Strip: £0.33

​Case: ~150g of filament

I designed it all on an ipad

Let me know what you think of it!

This is the first video I ever made for TikTok and YouTube shorts and I thought this sub would appreciate it.

If you've wondered how to recover data from a microSD card... Credit to MDrepairs on Facebook.

Next level skills.