2018-05-12, 07:45
(2016-05-14, 21:01)andyweather Wrote: Thats a shame its no good to me then as i cannot solder.
Will have to stay with system red.
Can't you find a kind enthusiastic 12-year-old to build it for you? I have to ask the neighbours' kid to program the video recorder...But, then I'm old and smell of pee...
Seriously, soldering is not hard, about 20 minutes of practice will get you going. You'll need both thin and 'normal' solder, and I'd advise getting a reel of solder braid if you need to take off some excess - which happens! Nice to have is a flux pen, (Like a whiteboard pen) and wipe over each set of pads where you're gonna put the next part. Makes soldering a bit easier. So, soldering iron, solder, braid, flux pen, nice pair of tweezers - adds less than €50 to total (banggood.com's maybe a good place to look first if you haven't got an electronics shop nearby).HTH
-Andy