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Robotics 2 – Soldering and Circuits

Course: ELT1010: ELECTRO-ASSEMBLY 1

For this section, we are going to learn to solder.

  1. What is solder?
  2. Soldering equipment.
  3. Safety and best practices.
  4. How to solder copper wires.
  5. Through-hole component soldering.
  6. Project: Make an LED badge!

Resources

  1. Soldering Is Easy! comic
  2. Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/Soldering-wires-together/

Project 1 – Soldering wires together.

wire

wire-splice-soldering

solder-tips

 

Project 2 – Through-hole Soldering

Step 1: The Components1

Step 2: Insert LED all the way through. Positive leg to the left.2 Step 3: Bend legs out 45 dergrees.3 Step 4: Solder4 Step 5: Insert resistor and bend legs out.5 6 Step 6: Solder the resistor in place through both of its holes. THEN add some solder to connect the right LED leg to the left resistor leg (the middle two wires).7 Step 7: Snip off the two inner leads and test with a 9V battery. Remember which end is positive (+).8 9 10 Works with a Coin cell battery too. Just dimmer.11 12

Project 3 – Solarbotics Learn to Solder kit.

solarbotics-kit

Through-hole components vs Surface mount components.

resistor_types

Printed Circuit Boards.

Project – Learn to solder a blinking LED badge.

Soldering iron maintenance: Instructables