I have been looking for a holder for my T12 soldering station tips for quite a while now. There is this one on banggood which looks good but seems to be priced a “bit” to high. I mean all it takes is some plastic and some holes. Wait plastic? Why not 3D print one? Firing… Read More »
Any reasonable built quadcopter consists to 30% of zip ties, duct tape, hot glue, and of course heat-shrink tubing. The latter is often processed with a gas lighter. I must admit that most of the time I used a lighter as well. Once you figure out how much heat (or fire) your heat-shrink tubing and… Read More »
I have used a variety of different soldering irons over the years. I started with a simple, fixed temperature iron during my childhood days to burn wholes in my mom’s carpet and came across different soldering iron brands the last years. I used them for heavy duty stuff such as soldering Li-Ion cells, delicate fine… Read More »
When building my tinyFISH fc and the tinyPEPPER ESC I was faced with soldering 0402 sized components. That is quite tricky to do manually, a stereo microscope helps a lot! Do not go for a monocular scope, 3D relly helps a lot. As this is just a hobby project and I am running on a… Read More »