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This looks good but I am divided. On the one hand, being a sw person and a solder virgin, I was recently flummoxed when I saw that the USB shield I ordered need
by Jun8 15y ago
This looks good but I am divided. On the one hand, being a sw person and a solder virgin, I was recently flummoxed when I saw that the USB shield I ordered needed to be, gasp, soldered (and it's really tiny connections, too)!
On the other hand, one can argue that a large part of learning is the getting flummoxed and learning to conquer it, so packaging everything up may kill the hands on aspect .
- trafficlight 15y agoI'm in the same boat as you, but I just dove in head first last week. My current project requires that I know whether a TV is powered or not. Even after using all the Google-fu I know, I wasn't able to find an off-the-shelf current sensor that was network or usb accessible. I decided to build my own. It's Arduino based with a current sensor on a separate breakout board. I was soldering connectors on to the breakout board and accidentally left the heat on way too long. Two tiny surface mount resistors fell off. It took 20 minutes, but I managed to solder both of them back on. The board even worked afterwards! That was last weekend. This weekend I now have 2 of these things built and my soldering skills have improved immensely. You're smart. You'll figure it out.
- darklajid 15y agoSame for me. As a beginner's project I plan to take my FON access port apart (a serial connection is required to install a better/different firmware). So - not for me. Would take a lot of fun out of the learning experience, I guess. But hell, this _is_ a cool thing for education/schools/introduction courses.