Announcing the “Soldering is Easy” Complete Comic Book!
April 11th, 2011 by Jeff
Do you want to learn how to solder? Do you want to make really cool things? Do you want to teach other people how to solder (and make cool things too)?
I’m happy to announce the release of Soldering is Easy, a comic book that will teach anyone the basics of soldering.
This seven page comic book explains in detail and with pictures how to make a good solder connection. It also teaches you all the other bits and pieces of knowledge that you need to successfully solder together an electronic kit, even if you’ve never soldered before!
I worked with Mitch Altman (@maltman23) and Andie Nordgren to create this revised and extended version of the wildly popular one page handout that Mitch and Andie created in 2010.
The comic (and lots more cool stuff!) will be included in a book that Mitch and I are writing about How to Make Cool Things with Microcontrollers (For People Who Know Nothing). It will be published by No Starch Press.
Here’s a sample page (click for a bigger version):
As of January 2012 the comic book has been translated into 15 other languages! A huge thanks to everyone who sent in translations and is helping us spread our message around the world! We would love for people to translate the comic book into more languages! If you create a translation, please post a comment here and I’ll link to it! If you’re looking for help with a translation, you can try posting in the forums.
The comic is released under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-ShareAlike), so you are free to teach with it, color it, modify it, share it with your friends, translate it, and basically do whatever you like with it!
English:
The complete comic book is available for download here:
“Soldering is Easy” Comic Book (PDF)
We also have some other versions of the comic available:
- FullSolderComic.mobi – Amazon Kindle version by bloo
- FullSolderComic_Booklet_11x17_EN.pdf – An 11×17 version that you can fold into an actual comic book (with 8.5×11 pages).
- FullSolderComic_Images_20110409.zip – 300 DPI images of each page
- FullSolderComic_NoText_20110409.zip – 300 DPI images without text (for translation)
- A PDF version without text is also available.
- FullSolderComic.zip – the Comic Life source file used to create all of the other versions.
High resolution images of both versions of the comic are also available on Flickr:
- “Soldering is Easy” Comic Book Flickr Set
- “Soldering is Easy” Comic Book for translation (no text) Flickr Set
Translations:
| PDF File | Language | Translators |
焊接是容易的 |
简体中文版 Chinese (Simplified) |
XinCheJian |
焊接是容易的 |
繁体中文版 Chinese (Traditional) |
XinCheJian |
Jootmine On Imelihtne |
Eesti Estonian |
Markus Järve |
Souder c’est Facile! |
Français French |
Lionel Delteil (Snootlab) |
Löten ist einfach! |
Deutsch German |
Alexander Bodora Richard Meinsen |
Οδηγός Για Εύκολη Συγκόλληση |
Ελληνικά Greek |
F.N. |
Menyolder Itu Gampang |
Bahasa Indonésia Indonesian |
Rudi Voon | Saldare E’ Semplice |
Italiano Italian |
Michele Maffucci |
ハンダ付けなんて簡単だ！ |
日本語 Japanese |
Yoshi | Det Er Enkelt A Lodde |
Norske Norwegian |
Henrik Sandaker Palm | Lutowanie Jest Proste |
Polski Polish |
Mark |
Solder É Fácil |
Português Portuguese (Brasilian) |
Radamés Ajna |
ПАЯТЬ ПРОСТО |
Русский Russian |
Atarity |
| Solder es Fácil (Version 1)  |
Español Spanish |
SGTECH 2nd translation by juani_c |
Att Löda Är Lätt! |
Svensk Swedish |
Christopher Eriksson |
| Special thanks to Alexander Bodora for creating this table! | ||