{"id":5386,"date":"2013-01-12T20:25:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T04:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=5386"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:10:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:10:56","slug":"soldering-is-easy-shoutout-in-lifehackers-how-to-get-started-with-diy-electronics-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/soldering-is-easy-shoutout-in-lifehackers-how-to-get-started-with-diy-electronics-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldering is Easy shoutout in Lifehacker’s “How to Get Started with DIY Electronics Projects”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPhoto credit: bionerd<\/a>
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\nSoldering is Easy<\/a> got a shoutout from Lifehacker’s<\/a> Thorin Klosowski<\/a>\u00a0this week in his post How to Get Started with DIY Electronics Projects<\/a>, alongside Ladyada’s “E is for Electronics”<\/a> coloring book.<\/p>\n

Lots of great advice here:<\/p>\n

One of the key things to learn right off the bat is that\u00a0expert experience isn’t required<\/a>\u00a0for DIY projects. You just need an idea of what you want to make, and from there you can find tutorials guiding you through the process.<\/p>\n

Sage words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo credit: bionerd Soldering is Easy got a shoutout from Lifehacker’s Thorin Klosowski\u00a0this week in his post How to Get Started with DIY Electronics Projects, alongside Ladyada’s “E is for Electronics” coloring book. Lots of great advice here: One of the key things to learn right off the bat is that\u00a0expert experience isn’t required\u00a0for DIY … Continue reading Soldering is Easy shoutout in Lifehacker’s “How to Get Started with DIY Electronics Projects”<\/span> →<\/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":true,"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":[460,422,148],"class_list":["post-5386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","tag-lifehacker","tag-soldercomic","tag-soldering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-1oS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1089,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/improvements-to-the-diy-pid-controlled-soldering-hotplate\/","url_meta":{"origin":5386,"position":0},"title":"Improvements to the DIY PID-Controlled Soldering Hotplate","author":"Jeff","date":"January 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week I posted about the DIY PID-Controlled Soldering Hotplate I designed and built to improve my surface mount soldering capabilities. 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