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Yoshi just sent us this Japanese translation of the Soldering is Easy Comic Book.

Thanks, Yoshi!

Soldering is Easy morse code translation, by David July.

(Click for the full-size version.)

Thanks, David!  Mitch and I both really like this one.  Mitch, who used to be able to do 20 wpm, could read it much faster than I could!

Last night we received two Spanish translations of the Soldering is Easy comic book, literally within minutes of each other.

The first, shown above, was sent in by SGTECH.  He got a late start but submitted his translation first.  Nice work!  You can download his version here.

Minutes later, we received a second Spanish translation of the comic from juani_c.

Thanks, guys!

Note to other translators – please try to communicate and coordinate as much as possible with other translators so that we can avoid getting more duplicate translations in the future! The best way to do this at the moment is to post a comment letting people know you are working on a translation.

More translations keep rolling in, and we’re having trouble keeping up with them!

Rudi Voon just sent us this Indonesian translation of the Soldering is Easy comic book.

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. This is probably the best place to start if you are making a translation, but you’ll need a Mac and a copy of Comic Life.

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!

And really, soldering is easy (and fun!).  Learn how to solder and teach your friends!

Update 2011-09-23:

Comments are now closed. Please use the online forums to discuss translations of the solder comic, ask questions, and give us feedback. Thanks!