Soldering iron driver update
Arhi continues to develop the universal soldering iron driver. This is a rendering of the third generation PCB. The soldering iron driver can use soldering pencils with K-type or PTC type temperature...
View ArticleSoldering Iron Driver case
Arhi had a Soldering Iron Driver case made. It’s a two-piece metal box with the front panel drilled and cut to specification. The grey plastic panel holding the LCD was printed on one of his RepRap 3d...
View ArticleSoldering iron driver v2 build
Fcobcn received some soldering iron driver V2 PCBs from Arhi. He used replacement parts for those components he couldn’t find locally. The version 2 unfortunately only supports thermocouple type...
View ArticleSoldering iron driver update
Arhi posted pictures of his latest soldering iron driver build: Here are the pictures of the populated board. Actually the DC driver is not populated as I’m not very interested in it and there’s no...
View ArticleGenesis of the Soldering Iron Driver
We’ve been following Arhi’s work on an open source soldering station for a while now. Now that the latest version is working, he documented the complete process of designing the Soldering Iron Driver...
View ArticlePreview: Open source soldering iron driver v1.5
Today we sent our updated soldering iron driver v1.5 PCB to be fabricated. This is a 100% through-hole reroute of Arhi’s latest gen 3 design. The ground plane is broken into power supply, analog, and...
View ArticleSoldering Iron Driver v1.5 Mouser order
S7726 shared his Mouser part order for the Soldering Iron Driver v1.5. This board is still under development so we haven’t yet decided on all the parts we will use. One thing to note is to follow the...
View ArticleSoldering Iron Driver v1.5 built with a DIY PCB
Download the source files from our SVN, mask the copper layer with toner-transfer, or UV exposure method, and etch the board with some acid. Once complete you’ll have your very own home-built...
View ArticleSoldering Iron Driver v1.5 assembled and enclosed
Pjkim assembled his Soldering Iron Driver v1.5 free PCB and enclosed it into some Tupperware. He had some problems with the firmware, but he eventually got it to work as intended. The LCD works, the...
View ArticleSoldering iron driver v1.5 PCBs are available at Seeed
Hardware hacking is more fun with open source, DIY tools. That’s why Arhi designed a completely open soldering station controller motherboard. And we designed a through hole version that is now...
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