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For a clumsy person like me wire-wrap seems even harder than the usual stuff around soldering, that said I'll look into it more because it seems incredibly inte
by aquariusDue 1y ago
For a clumsy person like me wire-wrap seems even harder than the usual stuff around soldering, that said I'll look into it more because it seems incredibly interesting.
Also it's nice hearing about Ben Heck in the wild, when I first started fiddling with Arduino I watched his YouTube videos on the element14 channel. Though from what I remember he's long since left. Another channel that I remember fondly is EEVblog even though both were about electronics the content itself didn't have much overlap if I recall correctly.
- danby 1y agoFWIW when wire wrapping you can get handy little hollow tools. You feed the wire in to a hole in the tool, drop the tool over the pin and just spin the tool to wrap the wire round the pin. It's all very neat and tidy and requires pretty minimal hand-eye-coordination to get it looking nice. I bought a tiny little one of the tools a while ago when doing some raspberry pi prototyping. Makes it easy to attach a wire to the GPIO header if it's not a dupont lead/wire
- FarmerPotato 1y agoThe important thing about wire-wrap sockets: they have square-ish pins. As you wrap the wire around the square pin, there is a mind-boggling degree of force between the corner and the wire, creating a gas-tight seal. It's tougher to get a good wrap onto a round pin. You can buy square-pin headers from peconnectors
- FarmerPotato 1y agoHaha--"in the wild". He's one of the regulars at VCFMW because he lives close by.