{"id":5238,"date":"2012-05-25T21:08:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T04:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:10:57","slug":"smt-soldering-its-easier-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/smt-soldering-its-easier-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"SMT Soldering – It’s easier than you think!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greg Peek and Dave Roberts<\/a> made this awesome comic book<\/a> to teach people how to solder surface mount components<\/a>. \u00a0Nice work, guys!<\/p>\n

SMT Soldering<\/a> was inspired by the Soldering is Easy comic book<\/a> that I created with Mitch Altman<\/a> and Andie Nordgren<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-1mu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5831,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/cool-tools-metcal-mx-5211-soldering-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":5238,"position":0},"title":"Cool Tools: Metcal MX-5211 Soldering Station","author":"Jeff","date":"January 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This is it! 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