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 got to: https://binary-kitchen.github.io/SolderingTutorial
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
Handy Breakout Board to get all the important voltages from a standard ATX power supply.
- Difficulty: 4/5
Easy soldering kit in homage to jugendhackt and its mascot.
Small soldering kit with an arrow on it from https://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AntiKippenLights-Mini.
- Difficulty: 4/5
Easy RGB soldering kit with the best Axolotl!
- Difficulty: 2/5
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
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
Simple LED cube consisting of 27 RGB LEDs in a 3x3x3 configuration. No programming needed.
- Difficulty: 3/5
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
Electronic dice which uses button bouncing and timing for randomness.
- Difficulty: 3/5
Dice with micro controller. Electronic dice which uses C random generator.
- Difficulty: 2/5
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
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
The Ermer Beeper is a very neat continuity tester or beeper.
- Difficulty: 2/5
Small soldering kit with an heart on from https://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AntiKippenLights-Atmel
- Difficulty: 2/5
Small soldering kit with an heart on it from https://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/AKL-Mini
- Difficulty: 4/5
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
Very easy soldering kit with three LEDs. Can be used as pin button.
- Difficulty: 1/5
A wonderful and easy soldering Kit with two different eye-colours.
- Difficulty: 2/5
Small soldering kit using SMD components with the kitchen head on it.
- Difficulty: 4/5
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
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
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
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
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
Very easy soldering Kit using simple Tools and nearly no soldering knowledge is needed.
- Difficulty: 1/5
Easy soldering Kit using simple Tools and nearly no soldering knowledge is needed.
- Difficulty: 2/5
A board to get information from your solar power panels with an Hoymiles inverter.
- Difficulty: 2/5
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
A perfect 3D-printed rugged case for your pinecil, extra tips and usb-c cable.
- Difficulty: 1/5
Simon Says clone with (optional) multiplayer mode
- Difficulty: 2/5
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
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
A simple SMD learning kit where a light chases around a circle.
- Difficulty: 4/5
Light up this super easy Robot. It has RGB-LEDs as eyees.
- Difficulty: 1/5
Fly to the moon with this RGB rocket badge.
- Difficulty: 2/5
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
A very easy circuit to power a little robot with a vibration motor.
- Difficulty: 1/5
Create a wonderful smart LED-Lamp you can control with you Smatphone.
- Difficulty: 4/5
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
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.
Please consider README.md in sub-folders for the Copyright and Authorship of the specific project.
Boards:
- Arne Rossius [email protected]
- Thomas Basler [email protected]
- Francesco Truzzi http://www.truzzi.me
- Timo Schindler https://www.timoschindler.de
- Thomas Schmid
TeX-Code:
- Marei Peischl [email protected] https://github.com/TeXhackse
Comic:
- Mitch Altmann http://cornfieldelectronics.com
- Jeff Keyzer http://mightyohm.com/blog/
- Andie Nordgren [email protected]
Manuals:
- Michael Pajewski
- Marei Peischl [email protected] https://github.com/TeXhackse
- Timo Schindler https://www.timoschindler.de
- Hannes https://github.com/misamura
Note: This list of authors can be incomplete. Please also consider the README.md in the sub-folders for authorship.
