{"id":3736,"date":"2011-03-29T01:54:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T06:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:00","slug":"soldering-is-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/soldering-is-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldering is Easy: Here&#8217;s how to do it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one page handout by Mitch Altman and Andie Nordgren teaches the basics of soldering in a simple and easy to understand way.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very, very familiar with this comic, for reasons that I hope to reveal soon.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/log.andie.se\/post\/397677855\/soldering-is-easy\">Soldering is Easy<\/a>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvbgone.com\/cfe_main.php\">Mitch Altman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/log.andie.se\/\">Andie Nordgren<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/soldercomic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3737\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/soldering-is-easy\/soldercomic\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/soldercomic.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1275,1651\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Solder Comic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/soldercomic-790x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3737\" title=\"Solder Comic\" src=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/soldercomic-386x500.jpg\" alt=\"Soldering is Easy!\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/soldercomic-386x500.jpg 386w, https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/soldercomic-790x1024.jpg 790w, https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/soldercomic.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the image to open <a href=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20100219-pmcq2auhgiwj1imwd2p8rg8sju.jpg\">a full size version<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/log.andie.se\/post\/397677855\/soldering-is-easy\">visit Andie&#8217;s site<\/a> to download a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/andie.se\/soldercomic.pdf\">PDF<\/a> version suitable for printing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one page handout by Mitch Altman and Andie Nordgren teaches the basics of soldering in a simple and easy to understand way. I&#8217;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. Click the image to open a full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/soldering-is-easy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soldering is Easy: Here&#8217;s how to do it.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","tag-soldering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-Yg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5238,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/smt-soldering-its-easier-than-you-think\/","url_meta":{"origin":3736,"position":0},"title":"SMT Soldering &#8211; It&#8217;s easier than you think!","author":"Jeff","date":"May 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Greg Peek and Dave Roberts made this awesome comic book to teach people how to solder surface mount components. \u00a0Nice work, guys! SMT Soldering was inspired by the Soldering is Easy comic book that I created with Mitch Altman and Andie Nordgren in 2011.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Electronics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Electronics","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/electronics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SMT_Soldering_Its_Easier_Than_You_Think_EN_Page_01-386x500.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5122,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/soldering-is-easy-comic-book-turns-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":3736,"position":1},"title":"Soldering is Easy Comic Book turns 1","author":"Jeff","date":"April 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Today marks one year since Mitch Altman, Andie Nordgren and I released our Soldering is Easy comic book. Since then it has been translated into 15 other languages (not including Morse Code) and has been downloaded more times than we can count (40,000 times in the first week alone). I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Electronics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Electronics","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/electronics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Soldering is Easy","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Page_1_resized-386x500.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3763,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/soldering-is-easy-comic-book\/","url_meta":{"origin":3736,"position":2},"title":"Announcing the &#8220;Soldering is Easy&#8221; Complete Comic Book!","author":"Jeff","date":"April 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Do you want to learn how to solder?\u00a0 Do you want to make really cool things?\u00a0 Do you want to teach other people how to solder (and make cool things too)? I'm happy to announce the release of\u00a0Soldering is Easy, a comic book that will teach\u00a0anyone the basics of soldering.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books and Resources&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books and Resources","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/books-and-resources\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/FullSolderComic_EN_Page_1_resized.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3836,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/sign-up-to-be-notified-when-my-book-is-published\/","url_meta":{"origin":3736,"position":3},"title":"Sign up to be notified when my book is published!","author":"Jeff","date":"April 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The \"Soldering is Easy\" comic book that was released on Monday will be included in a cool book that Mitch Altman (@maltman23) 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 later this year.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Announcements&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Announcements","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/announcements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3798,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/translators-wanted\/","url_meta":{"origin":3736,"position":4},"title":"Translators Wanted","author":"Jeff","date":"April 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The original one-page solder comic that Mitch and Andie created last year has been translated into several other languages. We would love to see our new \"Soldering is Easy\" comic book translated into lots of other languages as well! If you would like to volunteer to do a translation, there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Electronics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Electronics","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/electronics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/soldercomic_de-380x500.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3921,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/3921\/","url_meta":{"origin":3736,"position":5},"title":"&#8230; &#8212; .-.. -.. . .-. .. -. &#8211;. .. &#8230; . .- &#8230; -.&#8211;","author":"Jeff","date":"April 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Soldering is Easy\u00a0morse code translation, by David July. (Click for the full-size version.) Thanks, David! \u00a0Mitch and I both really like this one. \u00a0Mitch, who used to be able to do 20 wpm, could read it much faster than I could!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books and Resources&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books and Resources","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/books-and-resources\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mightyohm_soldering-is-easy_sfbm-386x500.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7792,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/7792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}