Where to learn these skills?

Tech Talk
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This.

Get a cheap soldering iron, look at a tutorial, get to it. In my experience liquor helps you get started, and helps you whenever something goes bad, so buy a bottle too :wink:

And it really is harder to screw up than you think. Seriously, almost everytime I’ve soldered to a PCB I’ve believed I’ve broken it (stupid HSF3), and everytime it turned out it wasn’t so.

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Trial and Error, learn from your mistakes man that’s about it.

I learned how to solder from my grandfather and lately I’ve been researching how to solder and a few other things. Next year is my senior year in high school and I might take a woods class to help learn how to make wooden cases for sticks and such.

Repetition man it’s the father of learning.

-EX :cool:

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the first thing I soldered was a mintyboost kit from adafruit industries, i got it all right on the first try, just google up a soldering for begginers tutorial.
http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=10&sessid=bac82fd20f95dd8c763956f9c69b3728

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Thanks guys for all the responses. I think I’ll pick up a soldering iron this summer once school is out and I have time to learn it. How much do they cost? I’ll probably go window shopping sometime.

Also, what should I start tinkering with first? I was thinking something cheap like an old TV remote or maybe an old mp3 player.

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look at adafruit.com they sell a variety of kits suitable for begginers.

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Just like what all the above said. Go buy a relatively cheap soldering iron, and practice on old pcbs from old stereos, keyboards, anything that you no longer need. I don’t have the link, but also youtube has alot of tutorials.

But mainly its all about practice.