This is how I solder small SMD LEDs. Thanks to okyoskar_1.87 who demonstrated this easy technique. For me, I would be using those grey 3M double-sided tapes instead as their glue kind of last longer against the soldering iron’s heat. So, just lay the SMD LEDs with their solder contacts face up. They are polarity […]
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20230528 That Last Minute Ligthbulb part 2
The next thing I need to do is to build the Cargo Bay. I had an extra set after trading my pre-production version with a friend who had no use for it. So, for the rest of the afternoon/evening, I was drilling and cutting out holes on the cargo bay walls. This was not as […]
20230528 The Problem with Mature Products
Since a few days ago, the Programmer started to give me problems where it was unable to prep fresh chips. In other words, I could not clear the microcontroller’s memory so that it could be programmed. At first, I thought it was the plug-in programming cable but after using my DIY Programmer adaptor, it was […]
20230528 That Last Minute Ligthbulb part 1
If there is anything, I have a lot of very bad habits. And one of them is being lazy. This morning, I worked enough energy to get my lazy ass off the bed and into the Works room to work on the spare Revell Cargo Bay, an idea came into my head. And that, my […]
20230518: Speeding up the soldering
As I was soldering this for a friend whose Razor Crest Project is running way faster than mine, it got me to thinking some things. Sure, I’ll get a very nice trade off from this but this is not the issue. The 37 LEDs took me three hours to solder onto the pair of engine […]
