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My first dev job! My college hired me to design and teach a soldering workshop. They are even budgeting me to develop special PCB for them! Heres one of the circuits I made to keep the boards interesting. Adjustable speed Star Trek Computer. 10
My first dev job! My college hired me to design and teach a soldering workshop. They are even budgeting me to develop special PCB for them! Heres one of the circuits I made to keep the boards interesting. Adjustable speed Star Trek Computer.
My first dev job! My college hired me to design and teach a soldering workshop. They are even budgeting me to develop special PCB for them! Heres one of the circuits I made to keep the boards interesting. Adjustable speed Star Trek Computer. from electronics
Imgur to some of the other circuits I made for these boards: https://imgur.com/gallery/vfQ3oa4
OMG that’s so cool, congratulations on a well made job
This has enough lense flare to be part of Discovery 😉
Congrats!
555+4017?
> teach a soldering workshop
*shows breadboard*
That struck me funny. Cool circuit. I wonder how they did the lights in TOS?
Make it all surface mount!
Firstly, congratulations on the job and, secondly, well done for wanting to make your lessons engaging.
As an educator, it’s worth bearing in mind that some (many?) of your students will not share the same interests as you. When I was in school, I hated it, because the teachers rarely related their subject to the real world; for example, in maths, we would be taught using interminably boring hypotheticals, or did not use any practical example. E.g. they never gave an example of what I might use Pythagoras’ Theorem for.
With soldering, some students might find a Star Trek-related project pointless or silly (and no doubt some will think it is marvellous). I understand that you have just given a single example of a project, and you may already have planned other, more practical circuits, so please don’t think I am judging harshly. I’m also cognisant of the fact that you may have already done your research and have determined that this is *exactly* what your students want to make! If you’re looking for more ideas for cheap circuits, you might consider various types of environmental sensors, such as temperature, light, resistance (e.g. for water or touch sensing).
Hopefully you have access to the relevant components; I know that can be a problem, and you might just have to work with limited resources that are already in stock.
Good luck; having the opportunity to educate others is a very rewarding experience, and an honourable endeavour.
What an awesome opportunity!
Since you mentioned developing your own PCBs, I wanted to chime in and mention JLCPCB as a PCB manufacturer.
You design your board using whatever software you choose (eagle, kicad, easyEDA, etc), then send your design to JLC and they make it for you.
They’re based in China, so it usually takes about 2 weeks (assuming you’re in the US like me) to get them. The price is ridiculously cheap and the quality is great.
I’ve had over 100 boards made using them with 0 issues. 40 of those boards, I had them assemble all the components as well. The smallest components I’ve had assembled were 0201 LEDs, and every one (60 per board x 10) were soldered perfectly. All smd, they don’t do through hole assembly, afaik.
I know I sound like a total JLC fanboy, but it’s only because I paid over $200 to have my first set of boards fabricated by a company in Belgium, and I checked, after the fact, what it would have cost through JLC, and it was $5 + shipping. JLCs quality was on par, if not better, than the Belgian company I first went with.
I hope you have a ton of fun with your project.
Close Encounters 🛸 of the third kind
Is the video glitching out for anyone else about halfway through?