Wed 02 March 2011

A commenter asked me for more specifics on stuff to get when getting started with electronics, so since I've learned a little since then, here's my uninformed opinion.

Soldering Iron

Get a good one. I got a reasonably crap Draper one from Amazon, which was 25W. It's fine, but takes …

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Thu 17 February 2011

I've been fiddling about with small electronics recently, specifically the Arduino, which is a microcontroller/prototyping board. The boards have gotten way cheap (standard ones are around 20-30 quid, less if you want fewer I/O ports or a specialised board layout you need to solder bits onto.

The hard …

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