For my second project, I worked in a group with two of my classmates, Jazzma and Calye basically learning how to solder and unsolder objects. Unfortunately, I missed a class because I was sick but I was still able to participate in soldering wires. However, our main focus was tearing down and soldering components off a drawdio.
- Helping hands soldering
To begin this project, I started off with something simple which was trying to solder something together. I have never worked with a soldering iron, so this was something new and interesting. I chose to use a wire to solder together, so I cut off a piece and stripped each end of the wire with a wire stripper.
Next, I placed my wire withing the soldering helping hands in order to make the soldering process easier.
I'm pretty sure, you have an idea of what came next, that as actually soldering both ends of the wires together.
You're probably thinking "what the hell is soldering? what does she keep referring too?" An easy explanation based on my experience is, its basically the melting of two metal objects in order to join them together.
So here's a picture of what it actually looks like.
The process was a little harder then I expected because of how difficult it was to get both ends to stay together while i melted them. As you can see, a piece of solder broke off which made it even harder but eventually I got the hang of it.
This is what I used to melt these parts together
Once I grasp the concept of soldering, our group worked on using the soldering iron for the opposite use compared to what I did earlier, and that was to take apart things. We decided to focus on taking off the speakers and the battery holder off of the Drawdio.
Drawdio in the "helping hands"
Finally, Jazzma used the soldering iron to heat the circuit board in specific areas in order for the battery holder to come off. She heated the leads that held the battery holder to the circuit board. She also was able to take off both speakers and once both components, the drawdio was pretty much "teared down".
As you can see above the each component that was detached from the drawdio, the process was pretty easy but I'm curious about the process of putting it back together.
