Slow but Solder

by Aaron

It's a bit hard to tell from the picture, but the board on the left is soldered much better than the one on the right. This is because HackRVA member Dustin has been soldering mega-much since joining a year go.  He showed me these two boards after noticing the difference himself and I snapped a quick pic.

If you want to get good at a maker skill, occupying HackRVA is an excellent method. It's hard not to learn with the constant project action. If you stand around long enough someone will put a soldering iron in your hand and make you solder. In fact, I did this twice today and two new solders were born.

And now that Dustin is practically a pro, he'll be all up and ready for the grueling 2015 badge build production LARPing. (note: he got plenty of practice last year too. we are all strong with the solder hand now thanks to badge builds)