Soldering Projects

[EarthboundHero]

I bought a soldering iron a month or so back to fix my Xbox, and have since bought a few cheap kits off eBay to build. I really enjoy putting these together, but I don't want to keep buying the same ones. What are some cool kits or projects that I can do with my soldering iron?

[Hackentosher]

Drones. There's so much fucking soldering there, you can check out my guide if you want to get a feel for how much. 

 

Or arduino projects, but a lot of those live on solderless breadboards.

[Scheer]

This one is very useful if you like pissing off family that is REALLY big into watching sports on TV...

 

https://www.adafruit.com/products/73

 

Note, it will get you kicked out of Buffalo Wild Wings, and Best Buy.

[Hackentosher]

10 minutes ago, Scheer said:

This one is very useful if you like pissing off family that is REALLY big into watching sports on TV...

 

https://www.adafruit.com/products/73

 

Note, it will get you kicked out of Buffalo Wild Wings, and Best Buy.

Omg, I want stories.

[Scheer]

2 hours ago, Hackentosher said:

Omg, I want stories.

Nothing crazy on either of them. I did it at BWW and we were all laughing about it when people were getting pissed off so they figured out it was us. The manager asked us to give it to him or leave, so we left.

 

My cousin did it at Best Buy and was being extremely obvious with it, holding it out at the TVs and slowly walking along turning them off (takes about a minute to cycle thru all the codes, and you can only hit about 20 TVs at once.) so an employee asked him to leave.

 

Its a huge PITA for them to turn them all back on so I only did it the one time, but I use it all the time when we visit family and friends.

 

 

[Huntsman]

Instead of buying kits to solder, why not look up some project schematics then buy the components yourself and solder them up point-to-point style.

 

http://www.instructables.com/id/Crystal-cMoy-Free-Form-Headphone-Amplifier/

[KaminKevCrew]

15 hours ago, Hackentosher said:

Drones. There's so much fucking soldering there, you can check out my guide if you want to get a feel for how much. 

 

Or arduino projects, but a lot of those live on solderless breadboards.

Keyboards are also a good one. If you get a PCB, it's pretty simple, but if you want a challenge, then the hand wire stuff is pretty good too!