I Can Has n00 Skill!

[lwood]

Thanks to maradydd and the fine folks of NoiseBridge, this day I learned to solder, putting together a Trippy LED Waves Kit--and then just to make sure I knew what I was doing, I did it all again, so now I have two.

Had I more than two of these, I could do something like this:

--'twould be an amusement worthy of the next Greyhaven Charlie Party (wherein Greyhaven goes back to the sixties, but takes back with it that which denizens have deemed appropriately interesting).

I admit, all that knitting and beading really helped me with the fine manual control needed to pull off soldering, but I didn't find it a difficult skill to acquire. Whee!

-- Lorrie

Comments

[lferion]

Cool beans!

I admit to a degree of startlement that I have a techie-skill that you previously did not :-). I actually spent several summers in college doing circuit board prep and assembly.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Hee! Well, I didn't get far enough in college to have kind of experience--I dropped out after one year (most of which I spent online anyhow).

-- Lorrie

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I don't do soldering these days. For one thing most of the components around are almost invisible ("what's this speck of dust?" "That's a capacitor!"), and also my hands aren't steady enough. Or, as I usually put it to employers: "I know which end of a soldering iron is hot, and usually I remember to pick it up by the other end!"

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Hee!

-- Lorrie

[ivy]

Hooray, soldering is awesome.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Not much day-to-day practical use in my life, and I would wibble and frob to a right lather if someone proposed I did it to something worth money, e.g., an iPod, but it was muchly funly. 8-)

-- Lorrie

To new skills!

[illuviel.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Ifwhen I'm not up to my eyeballs in toddlerville (and have a little more free time), I'd like to re-become proficient with a soldering iron. (I played around as a wee one, with my mom's radio equipment stash, but didn't really know what I was doing.)

Cheers.

Re: To new skills!

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, radio...

-- Lorrie

*snerk*

[emberleo.livejournal.com]

Okay, I know you meant "new skill" but every time I scroll past "n00 skill!" I parse it as "NO skill!"

Oy!

But hey, yay for soldering, it's a great skill to have. It's been a very long time since I've done any myself, at which point I was also taught welding and other metal shop skills.

--Ember--

Re: *snerk*

[lwood.livejournal.com]

That's all right, a n00 skill isn't terribly different from no (or even n0) skill. *grin*

I'm completely unsurprised that you were taught those sorts of things--California not only != Ohio, but the Shop end of my high school was a place where Honors/AP kids simply Did Not Go--more's the pity, I might have enjoyed myself.

On the other hand, I was still a raging asshole, so maybe not.

-- Lorrie

Re: *snerk*

[emberleo.livejournal.com]

Well, it was Jr. High, and believe you me, I did NOT fit in. I was the only girl in the class, only one of two "super" 6th graders, and the only one other than the teacher who was actually able to lift the anvil bolted to a log. The guys did like that, and so were constantly picking on me (never quite to the point of hitting me, thankfully), and the teacher was very sexist, but I was too stubborn (apathetic?) to request to change out.

--Ember--