I'm teaching the Electronics Merit badge for Troop 6 this summer. We will be building a kit from www.electronicsmb.com to meet the requirements. My son is part of the class and we did his kit as a practice run... He'd only been awake for a few minutes that morning, but he was ready to go! If you are building this kit, the instructions are here: http://electronicsmb.com/ElectronicKit.htm - look for "Class 4: Building Kit / Soldering"  |
| Opening the bag... |
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| Parts sorted... |
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| Instructions ready... |
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| The ATTINY ready to be soldered... |
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| Carefully soldering IC pins, and commenting that Dad's Hakko iron is MUCH better than the Harbor Freight iron he started with... |
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| Its not in his mouth, just the photo angle... |
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| Inserting the LEDs - with the correct polarity |
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| Inspecting the LEDs to make sure they are flush... |
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| all the LED leads are bent over... |
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| Someone just learned that LED leads stay hot for a while... He's not letting me see that it hurt... I feel bad, but it is an essential part of learning - I did not hold his hands - he built it himself. |
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| Sometimes the solder gets stuck in the joint - don't remove the iron and the solder at the same time - keep the iron on the joint for another second after removing the solder... |
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| Soldering in the resistors... |
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| Finishing up the with the capacitor and switches... |
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| All components installed and soldered... |
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| Battery pack soldered - the only component that is soldered on this side of the board... |
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| Mounted in the box... |
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