The warm and rather stinky heart of any hacker’s lair is the soldering station, where the PCB meets the metal (solder). A good soldering station lets you get on with the business of building stuff ...

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There is a certain sense of accomplishment one gets when building their own tools. This is what [Alejandro Velazquez] was going for when he built his own soldering station. Sure you can get a decent ...

Soldering is one of the most useful skills you can learn in the DIY world, especially for repairing your electronics. But a lot of soldering irons are inadequate or inconvenient, so iFixit released ...

In brief: iFixit is taking a modern approach to a classic tool. Their new portable soldering system tackles a common pain point in electronics tinkering and repair: the cumbersome power cord attached ...

As part of its longstanding efforts to encourage users to repair their electronic devices and other items, iFixit is announcing FixHub, a USB-C soldering iron and portable power station designed to ...

A set of tools like this can literally last a lifetime. They fit into a convenient pouch like a Klein Tools 5139. You can conquer the world with this kit! Everybody has individual tools that they like ...

In the 1800s and early 1900s soldering irons were still heated by flame. The large copper tips on the irons were slow to heat and would at best store heat for only a few minutes. It was not uncommon ...

Not being able to solder puts a hard cap on the kinds of devices you can fix at home. As more modern devices add in circuit boards and discrete electronics (needed or otherwise), soldering is often ...

Most, if not all, engineers know how to handle a soldering iron. But there are a few folks in the industry who want to know more about those wisps of smoke they sometimes see rising from our ...