One of the easiest soldering projects to do as a beginner is to solder a resistor to an LED. You can technically put the ...

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Disclaimer: This is not a technical introduction to soldering. Instead, I’m sharing my insights and personal experience with printed-circuit-board (PCB) soldering that have transformed my perception ...

There are a lot of things you can do with today’s powerful microcontrollers, but sometimes you really need a full embedded Linux setup. [Dylan Brophy] wanted to make it easier to add Linux to his own ...

It’s been a while since we’ve had a fresh How-To on the Hack-A-Day, and frankly we’ve missed them. To get things rolling, [Eliot] and I wanted to build a good knowledge base to help you hack your own ...

If you do a lot of soldering projects, you probably have a ton of solder beads around your work area. With a few tools you can melt them down and remold them into usable solder again. Solder isn't the ...