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It’s not just about laziness. Many commercial footprints, developed for power efficiency, low cost, and compact size are nearly impossible to hand solder, so ha
by ip26 6y ago
It’s not just about laziness. Many commercial footprints, developed for power efficiency, low cost, and compact size are nearly impossible to hand solder, so hand solder repair becomes less & less common in a downward spiral.
Few people know how to solder a circuit board anymore. But few people know how to churn butter, dress a hog, write with a fountain pen, or navigate by compass anymore either.
- jrochkind1 6y agodefinitely, that's what I meant too! I would not expect every consumer to learn how to do this, I would expect, in a sane world, you would take it to a shop or back to the producer. It's about the design of the devices, they need to be designed to be repairable affordably. There should be tax or subsidy bonuses/penalties for this. (The simplest effective way would be to require all manufacturers to take broken or obsolete electronics back at no charge, responsible for repair, recycling, or disposal themselves, so that there is incentive to reduce costs of such).
- guenthert 6y agoIs it more important to design the device to be repairable affordably or to be affordably in the first place? At $40 a pop it's hard to justify any repair on those RPis. There are much more valuable devices out there which are less easily repairable.
- jrochkind1 6y agoMore important to what or whom? The immediate convenience of the consumer may have a different "more important" than the sustainability of human life on this planet as we drown in discarded $40 electronics and the byproducts of their production, that were "not important" to make non-disposable because it was so convenient to dispose of them.