In addition to the board and components, it's important to get your hands on some tools for your Arduino kit, too. You'll typically solder pin headers or wires to components, so a soldering kit ...

Holding through-hole components in place while soldering is a pain — literally. I’ve mildly burned my fingertips numerous times holding components (like pin headers) in place with one finger ...

SMDs allow for far more tiny chips, resistors, and other bits to be attached to boards by their tiny pins, flat contacts, solder balls, or other connections. For those things that are bigger ...

“With a finished project, you’re likely to make permanent connections to your Nano by soldering it ... adapter with a screw terminal for each pin. The perfect way to connect wires or ...

[Electronoobs] has come up with a DIY portable soldering iron that the adventurous hacker can build themselves. Powered by an ATMega328p pulled out of an Arduino Nano, if offers the same ...

Arduino, popular among makers for its inexpensive but capable microcontroller boards and a vast array of sensors and other components, is making introducing people to its world even easier.

I know how to solder, but I do not always want to solder ... perfect shiny blob can put a halt to one's tinkering ambitions. Arduino, the building block of many off-hours projects, has put ...