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

[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