Remember when you were a kid and made ornaments from construction paper in school? The Make: Learn to Solder Ornament is much, much cooler. Plus, you can get one free! Celebrate the Holidays MAKE style with this ornament and custom MAKE gift wrapping.
Two of The LED Artist’s fantastic kits, the USB Blinky and Color Night Joule Thief, are now available in the Maker Shed! Both of these kits are fantastic for learning how to solder, since they exclusively use through-hole components.
Designer Kimio Kosaka soldered together an entire Arduino using the difficult freeform method.
Zach “Hoeken” Smith just emailed us about his Stencil8 project, a straightforward technique for stenciling/squeegeeing on solder for surface mount (SMT) components. On his site (and Github) Zach has posted a really nice tutorial and the open source files for the tooling fixture (to hold the stencils), the stencils, the PCB set-up, etc.
ITP students Mark Kleback and Ezer Lichtenstein designed and built a ten step sequencer that can be linked to other sequencers running on the same clock speed.
Have you ever had one of those “why didn’t I think of that” moments? I had one the first time I saw Adafruit’s Perma-Proto Breadboards, now available in the Maker Shed.
A quick look at the 10 beginner-friendly electronics projects we’ve built thus far over at Weekend Projects. Don’t forget to check out all our project videos, and subscribe to the Weekend Projects Newsletter!
