The first, very important design criterion was to keep the total costs as low as possible. Nothing fancy, just a well-functioning, sturdy design. And it may look a bit old-fashioned in the SM D-age, but when it comes to soldering hardware, most makers still prefer through-hole parts. Although it gets increasingly difficult to find through-hole electronic components (especially integrated circuits), we wanted to present a complete TH-design to make this new project easy to build. To simplify building and wiring this soldering station, it consists of two PCBs (a main board and a frontpanel board) that are interconnected with one flat cable only. A new Microchip Technology AVR microcontroller is used here, enabling us to design the software for the Arduino IDE, offering this easy development platform to readers who want to change the software.
展开▼
