Hey everyone of Steemit, I decided to start making consistent blogs on projects I do on the weekend, or updates to previous project I worked on.
this weekend I received my new soldering station, the Weller WLC100. I also bought new items, jumper wires, male-male, female-male, female-female connections, heat shrink tubings. I successfully wired my arduino leonardo to RC car that I picked up at a thrift store, but I ran into some complications. When I received my new soldering station, I turned it on to let it heat up, and fell asleep shortly after, leaving it on for two hours! I woke up knew what happened, and thought I ruined the tip on my new solder station. Since I was new to soldering, I started reading up on what I can do to salvage my brand new tip. I learned couple of things. Tinning your tip, 60/40 tin/lead solder wire, and rosin core flux. Even thought my solder wire is rosin core (flux apparently) I still bought flux as a safety measure, I also bought hakko 599b, and that cleans your solder tip so much better than a sponge, I will never use a wet sponge again. Anyways, yes, I was able to recovery the tip, and now I cover the tip in solder to act as a buffer.
Here is some messy pictures of my Arduino Leonardo hooked up to my RC car.
I initially wanted to power leonardo off of the RC car battery pack, but I was only getting less than 2 volts, so, I had to scrap that idea and just go with separate battery pack.
As for my second project, I decided to update my celtic slammer, in my previous blog I showed pictures of my celtic slammer, how I made it, and where I bought my materials at. The first time I made that celtic slammer, I didn't have a paracord fid to help me weave. After a week of carrying it around, and no I never had to use it. I knew it would pop out, whenever I would have to use it, and by the way it popped out pretty easily. So, I went on amazon, and bought 5 pack of paracord fid. Last night I decided to update it while watching one of my favorite twitch streamers. Anyways here is some updated pictures, I was able to do 5 pass throughs, and I am very happy with the new results! :D
Comparison from the old one to the new one.
Here is a close up, and as you can tell the updated slammer I have more pass throughs there is less exposure of the golf ball, and I am fairly confident it won't pop out.
I found my heat gun (glorified lighter) I use for heat shrink tubing, and I cantget over how clean this looks when I melt the ends, and prevent fraying
Here is last picture, I am just so happy it turned out much better, my weaves look a lot more consistent. I am overall happy.
Anyways guys that is all the projects I did over the weekend, stay tuned for next weekend!