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Is your room gonna smell like soldering rosin while you're making the device? Cause there's no "real retro" without that smell of rosin. :)
by Florin_Andrei 10y ago
Is your room gonna smell like soldering rosin while you're making the device? Cause there's no "real retro" without that smell of rosin. :)
- XtalJ 10y agoYes, and it is a lot of soldering :-) The real retro feeling is given by the old UV EPROM with gold pins (DDR copy of 2732) and the shiny big 2W resistors :-D
- stan_rogers 10y agoOh, come now! Surely an impenetrable tangle of fragile little wires wrapped around a forest of little square pegs is retro enough?
- XtalJ 10y agoI first built my computer using low quality breadboards and a lot of wires, which I tried to keep as tidy as possible, without success ;-) I designed a PCB in KiCAD and got 5 of them delivered a week ago. Sooo much better :-) I wonder how the FAP80 was prototyped?
- jamesfmilne 10y agoFor teenage me, during electronics projects the room always smelt of solder fumes, burnt skin, and melted wire insulation. :-)
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoSo, at some point I learned that you could use an aspirin tablet instead of rosin. It works, kinda, but the fumes are the kind that melts your lungs off. But yeah, there's no "real" soldering without burnt fingertips.
- throwanem 10y agoBurnt fingertips, hell. My second, and so far last, iron burn happened as a result of trying to solder an SD card slot hacked from an old floppy edge connector onto the CPU pins of a WRT54G with an insufficient magnifier that had me leaning way too close to the work. Turns out my nose sticks out further than I'd thought! And the blister stuck out further still. The sort of thing about which my mother might say "that'll learn ya," and it did - I'm much more cautious now.