LearningToSolder - Main - The Caboteria

Tory asked the other day if I could teach her how to solder, so I being the nerd Dad that I am I got a couple of kits from [[http://evilmadscience.com/][Evil Mad Science Labs]] for the kids to assemble.

The kits are great - inexpensive, very easy to assemble, and the cartoon directions are a lot of fun.

<a href="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00001.jpg"><img src="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00001.jpg-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Uploaded by uploadtotwiki/2007-02-12"/></a> Tory assembled a [[http://evilmadscience.com/tinykitlist/44-menorah][Deluxe LED Menorah]].<p/>
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<a href="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00006.jpg"><img src="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00006.jpg-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Uploaded by uploadtotwiki/2007-02-12"/></a> Tory's kit worked the first time we powered it up!<p/>
<a href="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00007.jpg"><img src="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00007.jpg-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Uploaded by uploadtotwiki/2007-02-12"/></a> Katharine assembled a [[http://evilmadscience.com/tinykitlist/152-scanner][Larson Scanner]].<p/>
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<a href="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00012.jpg"><img src="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00012.jpg-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Uploaded by uploadtotwiki/2007-02-12"/></a> Katharine's kit needed a little debugging - one of the resistor leads was a little dry so one of the LED's didn't light up.  Easy to fix and then it worked great!<p/>
<a href="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00013.jpg"><img src="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00013.jpg-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Uploaded by uploadtotwiki/2007-02-12"/></a> Success!<p/>
<a href="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00014.jpg"><img src="%ATTACHURLPATH%/00014.jpg-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Uploaded by uploadtotwiki/2007-02-12"/></a> Pretty good job for a 10-year-old's first time soldering!<p/>