Come on down to the Vancouver Hack Space for the Surface Mount Soldering Night.
We will be soldering a board called “Illuminate This” which is just a board full of white LEDs.
Even if you’ve never done any circuitry or soldering, this is a good kit! Every time we have run this, we have had every level of experience from never touched a soldering iron, to experienced and it was a blast.
Solder one, or solder many. We will teach you how to use solder paste and a solder mask to make the process easy. Once you’ve placed all your components, pop it in our SMD oven and you will walk away with a board containing 80 bright LEDs.
Use these boards to make backlighting, lamps, or whatever you imagine.
The class is free for VHS Members, and only $5 for non-members. Each kit costs $5, you can purchase the night-of. Non-members that sign up that night get a free kit!
No need to sign up, but if you want to indicate your interest here, that would be appreciated. See you then!
Crap, I was looking forward to this session since I missed the previous one but unfortunately I’ll have to be away for work. If you have any left over I might just buy a few off of you (and maybe borrow the stencil sometime).
I keep the boards and the stencil located at VHS, just hit me up with a PM before you intend to build one and I’ll give you the low-down. I ordered a bunch so there’s no current worry about running out. If I get low on boards, I’ll make another order.
Thanks Mike, that was a great workshop. Anne and I both enjoyed making the LED boards. The pressure was on for me as Anne’s went into the easy-bake first and all LED’s lit up when done.