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 2015 the comic book has been translated into 21 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
• ePub version by Hal Motley (contributed Feb 18, 2018)
• 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
	Arabic	Ahmed Mo’ni
	Azerbaijani	Orkhan Amiraslan
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
Lemiti je lako	Hrvatski Croatian	Ivan Matacic
PÁJENÍ JE JEDNODUCHÉ	Český Czech	Jindra Fučík
Det Er Nemt At Lodde	Dansk Danish	Jesper Haffgaard
Iedereen Kan Solderen	Nederlands Dutch	Ivo van den Maagdenberg Alt. translation by Deeeep
Jootmine On Imelihtne	Eesti Estonian	Markus Järve
Souder c’est Facile!	Français French (updated May 2015)	Snootlab
Löten ist einfach!	Deutsch German	Alexander Bodora Richard Meinsen
Οδηγός Για Εύκολη Συγκόλληση	Ελληνικά Greek	F.N.
Forrasztani Egyszerű	Magyar Hungarian	dnet
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
Este Ușor Să Lipeşti	Română Romanian	Andrei C. Papuc Alexander Bodora
ПАЯТЬ ПРОСТО	Русский Russian (new updated and colorized version!)	Atarity Alternate black and white version
Solder es Fácil (Version 1)	Español Spanish	SGTECH 2nd translation by juani_c
Att Löda Är Lätt!	Svensk Swedish	Christopher Eriksson
Lehím Yapmak Kolaydir	Türkçe Turkish	Uğur Arıcı Özcan Oğuz
Паяти — просто	українська Ukranian	Ukranian Maker Association

Special thanks to Alexander Bodora for creating the original version of this table!

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