I’ve mildly burned my fingertips numerous times holding components (like pin headers) in place with one finger while trying to apply iron and solder with the remaining digits and other hand.

You'll typically solder pin headers or wires to components, so a soldering kit should be a priority. You'll also want a multimeter, especially when troubleshooting power issues.

Alsocheck for cold solder joints – a joint that’s got some solder on it,but isn’t quite connecting the two solder points together. Cold jointsaren’t always the easiest to see; look out for joints that ...

While it may seem a bit intimidating at first, most consumer-grade solder equipment is fairly easy to work with, and with enough practice, you’ll be hardwiring your Arduino projects in no time!

Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering Combining both the big and little solder jobs made a big difference.

After soldering all the components to the neat breadboard-style PCB, [CulinarilySpeaking] fired up the Arduino IDE and put the Blink example on the 644.

well I got a couple of molex adapters and the necessary male connectors. I cut a thicker gauge wire from an old fan as the Panaflo L1A leads were too thin to be crimped on the molex pins properly ...

Arduino’s new Plug and Make Kit continues in this vein. SparkFun’s Quiic connector allows you to assemble all the components needed for your project without soldering or even using a ...

With Google's Open Accessory Toolkit rolling up Android and Arduino together, there's a lot of attention being given to to the popular hacking engine. But unsurprisingly, such a powerful tool isn ...

Arduino Nano screw terminal adapter “With a finished project, you’re likely to make permanent connections to your Nano by soldering it.