Archive for the ‘DIY’ Category

Menyolder Itu Gampang (Soldering is Easy – Indonesian Translation)

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

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.

 

Solder É Fácil (Soldering is Easy – Portuguese Translation)

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Radamés Ajna just sent us Soldar É Fácil, a (Brazillian) Portuguese translation of our Soldering is Easy comic book.

I’ve started adding the translated versions of the Solder Comic to the original post.

Soldering is Easy – Simplified Chinese Translation

Monday, April 18th, 2011

XinCheJian just sent us this Simplified Chinese translation of the Soldering is Easy comic book.

Announcing the “Soldering is Easy” Complete Comic Book!

Monday, April 11th, 2011

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:

High resolution images of both versions of the comic are also available on Flickr:


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!

Soldering is Easy: Here’s how to do it.

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

This one page handout by Mitch Altman and Andie Nordgren teaches the basics of soldering in a simple and easy to understand way.

I’m very, very familiar with this comic, for reasons that I hope to reveal soon.

Enjoy!

Soldering is Easy, by Mitch Altman and Andie Nordgren.

Soldering is Easy!

Click the image to open a full size version or visit Andie’s site to download a PDF version suitable for printing.


www.flickr.com
mightyohm More of mightyohm