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sooned
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Aug 19, 2016
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Wish I hadn't read this. Made me want one so bad. I don't even have a soldering iron.
Aug 19, 2016
Waah
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Aug 19, 2016
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soonedI'm hoping my investment into soldering tools here will let me save some money on neat DIY keyboards in the future.
Aug 19, 2016
sooned
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Aug 19, 2016
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WaahIt WOULD be a good first DIY board considering its size.
Aug 19, 2016
j.a.l
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Aug 24, 2016
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WaahI hate to break it to you, but if you find you like soldering, you are at the beginning of a long, wonderful new hobby, but saving money will not be one of the side effects. Getting involved in electronics was probably the single worst thing I've done to my retirement fund...
Aug 24, 2016
Waah
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Aug 24, 2016
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j.a.lI meant the added cost of pre-assembled boards, but I suppose knowing how to solder would lead to purchases I'd have otherwise not made. A net loss in money either way, hah.
Aug 24, 2016
j.a.l
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Aug 24, 2016
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WaahYeah, I just meant that it is a long, slippery slope. I played around a little with electronics as a kid, and came back to it a while back. A friend broke her USB thumb drive - sat on it and snapped off the jack, and of course it had un-backed-up Super Important Files on it. So I dug out an ancient iron and gave it a go, and surprisingly, my crappy soldering job worked well enough to get the data off.
Little did I know that that moment would lead to what is simultaneously the worst time sink since Tetris during finals and the worst money sink since cocaine.
An iron, fine. Helping hands and a maybe a PCB vice, a solder-sucker, a heat gun - those just make sense if you're going to use an iron. A multimeter, hey, that's handy around the house. But warning signs include lingering over the technical charts for oscilloscopes, ordering components that aren't earmarked for a project because you had trouble sourcing them in the past, and downloading Eagle. If you ever wake up in the middle of the night with a great new feature that only means rearranging half your board, it is time to consider rehab.
Aug 24, 2016
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