GitHub - levino/SolderingTutorial: Complete soldering course for beginners and advanced.

Soldering Tutorial

This repository contains all files for our soldering kits and courses. Please feel free to download and use everything you need.

We've tried to collect and create tutorials with different difficulties and are offering SMD and DIP soldering kits.

For an overview of all kits with manuals and interactive pcb views got to: https://binary-kitchen.github.io/SolderingTutorial

If you want to buy soldering Kits you can find some here: shop.blinkyparts.com

We have tips how to organise a soldering workshop in the field and how to further decorate the kits: Wiki: Festival Setup

Soldering Kits

ATX Breakout Board

Handy Breakout Board to get all the important voltages from a standard ATX power supply.

Difficulty: 4/5

Al Hacka Alpakca

Easy soldering kit in homage to Jugend hackt and its mascot.

Arrow SMD

Small soldering kit with an arrow on it from https://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AntiKippenLights-Mini.

Difficulty: 4/5

Axolotl Badge

Easy RGB soldering kit with the best Axolotl!

Difficulty: 2/5

Blinkenrocket Mini

A very simple soldering kit and a very intuitive way to programm your own led matrix. Super fun blinkenrocket!

Difficulty: 2/5

Cat in a Box 1

A Cat in a box easy SMD kit. Bright glowing LED-eyes are watching every step! With this soldering kit it is super easy to learn SMD soldering.

Difficulty: 3/5

Cat In A Box

Can you please turn around? If you stare, the cat will stare back in all colours of the rainbow due to RGB-LEDs on the back. The soldering kit is very simple and easy to assemble.

Difficulty: 2/5

Cube DIP

Simple LED cube consisting of 27 RGB LEDs in a 3x3x3 configuration. No programming needed.

Difficulty: 3/5

This 3D construction kit allows you to solder a personalized daisy with a large RGB LED in the center, with colors adjustable using variable resistors and overall brightness and individual colors adjustable via slide switches.

Difficulty: 2/5

Dice DIP

Electronic dice which uses button bouncing and timing for randomness.

Difficulty: 3/5

Dice Micro Controller DIP

Dice with micro controller. Electronic dice which uses C random generator.

Difficulty: 2/5

Dino

This rainbow dinosaur will brighten up your life. The spikes are glowing in all colours of the rainbow due to RGB-LEDs on the back. The soldering kit is very simple and easy to assemble.

Difficulty: 2/5

Draussenfuchs Antenna

A soldering kit for a simple 433MHz Yagi anenna designed for the draussenfuchs.de fox hunting game.

Difficulty: 2/5

Draussenfuchs Sender

A soldering kit for a 433MHz fox sender for the draussenfuchs.de fox hunting game.

Difficulty: 2/5

Elefant

Everyone knows the great elephant from the “Sendung mit der Maus” and, as always, he has a good idea. An LED in the trunk that lights up in RGB colors.

Difficulty: 2/5

Ermer Beeper DIP

The Ermer Beeper is a very neat continuity tester or beeper.

Difficulty: 2/5

Heart DIP

Small soldering kit with an heart on from https://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AntiKippenLights-Atmel

Difficulty: 2/5

Heart SMD

Small soldering kit with an heart on it from https://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AKL-Mini

Difficulty: 4/5

Humo - Solder-Fume Exctractor

This simple solder fume extractor just needs a PC fan and a solder fume filter. If you add some goggly eyes the fume extractor has a pretty nice smiling face. It is optimised for laser cut parts.

Difficulty: 2/5

I Can Solder DIP

Very easy soldering kit with three LEDs. Can be used as pin button.

Difficulty: 1/5

Katie The Cat

A wonderful and easy soldering Kit with two different eye-colours.

Difficulty: 2/5

Kitchen Head SMD

Small soldering kit using SMD components with the kitchen head on it.

Difficulty: 4/5

LEDWolf

This great LED wolf is a good way to start tinkering if you don't have a soldering iron with you at the moment. All you need is a little glue and a small Phillips screwdriver to assemble this great wolf.

Difficulty: 1 /5

Moon Cat

Excuse me? What are you staring at? This wonderful kit is very simple in terms of circuitry, but the result is simply hilarious.

Difficulty: 2/5

Motörbörd

Chirp chirp chirp, chirp chirp! The Motörbörd is a creative soldering kit that you can use to build your own little bird call generator. It is not powered by batteries, but by a small motor that generates electrical energy when turned like a dynamo.

Difficulty: 2/5

NE555 Heart THT

A wonderful Heart with SMD LEDs. You can choose between full on, follow-LEDs and even can influence the speed of your LEDs.

Difficulty: 3/5

NE555 Heart SMD

A wonderful Heart with SMD LEDs. You can choose between full on, follow-LEDs and even can influence the speed of your LEDs.

Difficulty: 4/5

Nibble++

A simple PCB to test your SMD hand-soldering skills. Going down to sand grain sized 01005 SMD parts, this button is a challenge for experienced "soldiers" and those who want to become one.

Difficulty: 6/5

Nibble Peg DIP

Very easy soldering Kit using simple Tools and nearly no soldering knowledge is needed.

Difficulty: 1/5

Nibble Peg DIP with On/Off Switch

Easy soldering Kit using simple Tools and nearly no soldering knowledge is needed.

Difficulty: 2/5

OpenDTU Breakout Board

A board to get information from your solar power panels with an Hoymiles inverter.

Difficulty: 2/5

Owl Thief THT

A simple joule thief circuit on the back of an owl. If you solder everything right, you can empty old batteries and make the eyes glow orange.

Difficulty: 2/5

Pinecil Case

A perfect 3D-printed rugged case for your pinecil, extra tips and usb-c cable.

Difficulty: 1/5

Push-It DIP

Simon Says clone with (optional) multiplayer mode

Difficulty: 2/5

Rainbow Butterfly

A wonderful rainbow Butterfly. The wings are enlighted by RGB-LEDs from the back of the PCB. The soldering kit is very simple and easy to assemble.

Difficulty: 2/5

Rainbow Unicorn 1

This unicorn will brighten up your life. The hair is glowing in all colours of the rainbow due to RGB-LEDs on the back. The soldering kit is very simple and easy to assemble.

Difficulty: 2/5

Ring Light SMD

A simple SMD learning kit where a light chases around a circle.

Difficulty: 4/5

Robo Robin

Light up this super easy Robot. It has RGB-LEDs as eyees.

Difficulty: 1/5

Rainbow Rocket

Fly to the moon with this RGB rocket badge.

Difficulty: 2/5

Saw-Tooth Organ DIP

Some Transistors creating a saw tooth wave enabling a very simple organ which you can play like a piano with a stylus.

Difficulty: 2/5

Shitty Robot

A very easy circuit to power a little robot with a vibration motor.

Difficulty: 1/5

SmartLED

Create a wonderful smart LED-Lamp you can control with you Smatphone.

Difficulty: 4/5

Solarpunk Synthesizer

A very simple solarpunk Synthesizer based on a simple Schmitt Trigger. Create crazy sounds with this simple soldering kit.

Difficulty: 2/5

SolderBox

We have designed a soldering box for you that is extra small but still contains everything you need. The box offers space for a complete soldering working place and is still so small that four of the boxes fit into a small Euro box.

Difficulty: 1/5

SpaceEggs

The Space Egg is a fun and beginner-friendly soldering kit combined with 3D-printed components. It features an interactive mechanism where turning the egg

Difficulty: 2/5

WeevilEye

The kit is a very easy kit with push-through parts, which is explicitly aimed at beginners. Once assembled, the red LED “eyes” light up brighter or dimmer depending on how much light falls on the photo sensor.

Difficulty: 2/5

License

This work is licensed under different licenses. Please see subfolders for details and LICENSE.md file in the top level directory for all used license files.

Copyright and Authorship

Please consider README.md in sub-folders for the Copyright and Authorship of the specific project.

Authors

Boards:

Arne Rossius arne@blinkenarea.org
Thomas Basler noby@binary-kitchen.de
Francesco Truzzi http://www.truzzi.me
Timo Schindler https://www.timoschindler.de
Thomas Schmid

TeX-Code:

Marei Peischl marei@binary-kitchen.de https://github.com/TeXhackse

Comic:

Mitch Altmann http://cornfieldelectronics.com
Jeff Keyzer http://mightyohm.com/blog/
Andie Nordgren andie.nordgren@gmail.com

Manuals:

Michael Pajewski
Marei Peischl marei@binary-kitchen.de https://github.com/TeXhackse
Timo Schindler https://www.timoschindler.de
Hannes https://github.com/misamura
Mario Langhammer https://github.com/Mallo321123

Note: This list of authors can be incomplete. Please also consider the README.md in the sub-folders for authorship.