Capybara

Soldering Tutorial

This repository contains all files for our soldering kits and courses. Please feel free to download and use everything you need.

We've tried to collect and create tutorials with different difficulties and are offering SMD and DIP soldering kits.

For an overview of all kits with manuals and interactive pcb views go to: https://binary-kitchen.github.io/SolderingTutorial

Linking directly to a kit

Every kit on the overview page has its own anchor, so you can link straight to its picture: https://binary-kitchen.github.io/SolderingTutorial/#Capybara opens the page scrolled to the Capybara card and highlights it. Clicking the small link icon on a card copies that deep link to your clipboard.

The overview page is generated from the project folders — make landing_page, i.e. python build_landingpage.py. Every folder that contains a card image at manual/images/thumbnail.{jpg,jpeg,png,gif,webp} shows up automatically, so a new kit only needs such a thumbnail to appear on the page.

If you want to buy soldering Kits you can find some here: shop.blinkyparts.com

We have tips how to organise a soldering workshop in the field and how to further decorate the kits: Wiki: Festival Setup

Soldering Kits

50 Ohm Dummy Load

A simple Dummy Load for 50 Ohm made for every amateur radio operator.

• Difficulty: §/5

Atari Punk Console - STEAM Edition

One of the simplestes Synthesizers you can build. Only two NE555 make super cool sounds!

• Difficulty: 1/5

ATX Breakout Board

Handy Breakout Board to get all the important voltages from a standard ATX power supply.

• Difficulty: 4/5

Al Hacka Alpaka

Easy soldering kit in homage to Jugend hackt and its mascot.

Arrow SMD

Small soldering kit with an arrow on it from https://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AntiKippenLights-Mini.

• Difficulty: 4/5

Axolotl Badge

Easy RGB soldering kit with the best Axolotl!

• Difficulty: 2/5

BleepBot

A talking robot!

• Difficulty: 2/5

Blinkenrocket Mini

A very simple soldering kit and a very intuitive way to program your own led matrix. Super fun blinkenrocket!

• Difficulty: 2/5

BlinkyTree

The BlinkyTree is a soldering kit for a fantastic soldering Christmas tree. The great feature: By blowing on the tree, you can play different songs. A wonderful soldering kit for the Christmas season.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Pooping Cat

Can you please turn around? If you stare, the cat will stare back in all colours of the rainbow due to RGB-LEDs on the back. The soldering kit is very simple and easy to assemble.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Cube DIP

Simple LED cube consisting of 27 RGB LEDs in a 3x3x3 configuration. No programming needed.

• Difficulty: 3/5

Daisy RGB

This 3D construction kit allows you to solder a personalized daisy with a large RGB LED in the center, with colors adjustable using variable resistors and overall brightness and individual colors adjustable via slide switches.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Dice DIP

Electronic dice which uses button bouncing and timing for randomness.

• Difficulty: 3/5

Dice Micro Controller DIP

Dice with micro controller. Electronic dice which uses C random generator.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Dino

This rainbow dinosaur will brighten up your life. The spikes are glowing in all colours of the rainbow due to RGB-LEDs on the back. The soldering kit is very simple and easy to assemble.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Draussenfuchs Antenna

A soldering kit for a simple 433MHz Yagi antenna designed for the draussenfuchs.de fox hunting game.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Draussenfuchs Sender

A soldering kit for a 433MHz fox sender for the draussenfuchs.de fox hunting game.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Elefant

Everyone knows the great elephant from the “Sendung mit der Maus” and, as always, he has a good idea. An LED in the trunk that lights up in RGB colors.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Ermer Beeper DIP

The Ermer Beeper is a very neat continuity tester or beeper.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Heartbeat

Small soldering kit with an heart and a beating led in the middle.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Heart DIP

Small soldering kit with an heart on from https://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AntiKippenLights-Atmel

• Difficulty: 2/5

Heart SMD

Small soldering kit with an heart on it from https://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AKL-Mini

• Difficulty: 4/5

Humo - Solder-Fume Exctractor

This simple solder fume extractor just needs a PC fan and a solder fume filter. If you add some goggly eyes the fume extractor has a pretty nice smiling face. It is optimised for laser cut parts.

• Difficulty: 2/5

I Can Solder DIP

Very easy soldering kit with three LEDs. Can be used as pin button.

• Difficulty: 1/5

Katie The Cat

A wonderful and easy soldering Kit with two different eye-colours.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Kitchen Head SMD

Small soldering kit using SMD components with the kitchen head on it.

• Difficulty: 4/5

LEDSchmuck

The LED jewelry kit allows you to easily and quickly assemble earrings or pendants with RGB LEDs. It's a creative kit for making great individual jewelry pieces.

• Difficulty: 2/5

LEDWolf

This great LED wolf is a good way to start tinkering if you don't have a soldering iron with you at the moment. All you need is a little glue and a small Phillips screwdriver to assemble this great wolf.

• Difficulty: 1/5

Maus

An easy hot wire soldering kit with the Sendung mit der Maus.

Moon Cat

Excuse me? What are you staring at? This wonderful kit is very simple in terms of circuitry, but the result is simply hilarious.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Motörbörd

Chirp chirp chirp, chirp chirp! The Motörbörd is a creative soldering kit that you can use to build your own little bird call generator. It is not powered by batteries, but by a small motor that generates electrical energy when turned like a dynamo.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Mushroom Rocket

A fusion between a rocket and a mushroom

• Difficulty: 2/5

NE555 Heart THT

A wonderful Heart with SMD LEDs. You can choose between full on, follow-LEDs and even can influence the speed of your LEDs.

• Difficulty: 3/5

NE555 Heart SMD

A wonderful Heart with SMD LEDs. You can choose between full on, follow-LEDs and even can influence the speed of your LEDs.

• Difficulty: 4/5

Nibble++

A simple PCB to test your SMD hand-soldering skills. Going down to sand grain sized 01005 SMD parts, this button is a challenge for experienced "soldiers" and those who want to become one.

• Difficulty: 6/5

Nibble Peg DIP

Nibble Peg DIP

Very easy soldering Kit using simple Tools and nearly no soldering knowledge is needed.

• Difficulty: 1/5

Nibble Peg DIP with On/Off Switch

Easy soldering Kit using simple Tools and nearly no soldering knowledge is needed.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Nose Dog

Easy soldering Kit using simple Tools and nearly no soldering knowledge is needed.

• Difficulty: 2/5

OpenDTU Breakout Board

A board to get information from your solar power panels with an Hoymiles inverter.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Owl Thief THT

A simple joule thief circuit on the back of an owl. If you solder everything right, you can empty old batteries and make the eyes glow orange.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Pinecil Case

A perfect 3D-printed rugged case for your pinecil, extra tips and usb-c cable.

• Difficulty: 1/5

Push-It DIP

Simon Says clone with (optional) multiplayer mode

• Difficulty: 2/5

Rainbow Butterfly

A wonderful rainbow Butterfly. The wings are enlighted by RGB-LEDs from the back of the PCB. The soldering kit is very simple and easy to assemble.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Rainbow Unicorn 1

This unicorn will brighten up your life. The hair is glowing in all colours of the rainbow due to RGB-LEDs on the back. The soldering kit is very simple and easy to assemble.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Ring Light SMD

A simple SMD learning kit where a light chases around a circle.

• Difficulty: 4/5

Robo Robin

Light up this super easy Robot. It has RGB-LEDs as eyes.

• Difficulty: 1/5

Rainbow Rocket

Fly to the moon with this RGB rocket badge.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Saw-Tooth Organ DIP

Some Transistors creating a saw tooth wave enabling a very simple organ which you can play like a piano with a stylus.

• Difficulty: 2/5

Shitty Robot

A very easy circuit to power a little robot with a vibration motor.

• Difficulty: 1/5

SmartLED

Create a wonderful smart LED-Lamp you can control with you Smartphone.

• Difficulty: 4/5

Smartphone Robot

A robot made out of an old smartphone. You can controll it by turning light on and off.

• Difficulty: 2/5

SMD Cat

A Cat in a box easy SMD kit. Bright glowing LED-eyes are watching every step! With this soldering kit it is super easy to learn SMD soldering.

• Difficulty: 3/5

Solarpunk Synthesizer

A very simple solarpunk Synthesizer based on a simple Schmitt Trigger. Create crazy sounds with this simple soldering kit.

• Difficulty: 2/5

SolderBox

We have designed a soldering box for you that is extra small but still contains everything you need. The box offers space for a complete soldering working place and is still so small that four of the boxes fit into a small Euro box.

• Difficulty: 1/5

SpaceEggs

The Space Egg is a fun and beginner-friendly soldering kit combined with 3D-printed components. It features an interactive mechanism where turning the egg

• Difficulty: 2/5

WeevilEye

The kit is a very easy kit with push-through parts, which is explicitly aimed at beginners. Once assembled, the red LED “eyes” light up brighter or dimmer depending on how much light falls on the photo sensor.

• Difficulty: 2/5

License

This work is licensed under different licenses. Please see subfolders for details and LICENSE.md file in the top level directory for all used license files.

Copyright and Authorship

Please consider README.md in sub-folders for the Copyright and Authorship of the specific project.

Authors

Boards:

• Arne Rossius arne@blinkenarea.org
• Thomas Basler noby@binary-kitchen.de
• Francesco Truzzi http://truzzi.me
• Timo Schindler https://www.timoschindler.de
• Thomas Schmid

TeX-Code:

• Marei Peischl marei@binary-kitchen.de https://github.com/TeXhackse

Comic:

• Mitch Altmann http://cornfieldelectronics.com
• Jeff Keyzer http://mightyohm.com/blog/
• Andie Nordgren andie.nordgren@gmail.com

Manuals:

• Michael Pajewski
• Marei Peischl marei@binary-kitchen.de https://github.com/TeXhackse
• Timo Schindler https://www.timoschindler.de
• Hannes https://github.com/misamura
• Mario Langhammer https://github.com/Mallo321123

Note: This list of authors can be incomplete. Please also consider the README.md in the sub-folders for authorship.