Huh, my soldering iron doesn’t even have an on switch, just “plugged in” or “not plugged in”. I’m not saying everything needs to be that simple but we sure do overcomplicate things in our devices.
Most of mine are just like that, but getting the TS100 is a real bonus for SMD stuff, for heavy stuff,and primarily for me can run off my Dewalt drill batteries. Being temp controlled with swappable bits with different elements means you can go from a tiny tip to a massive wedge using the full 100w very easily, and being able to do that inside a speaker can in a field without having to find an inverter or whatever is well worth the price of admission
That’s fine for simple work, but soldering can absolutely benefit from a temperature controller. That’s either a simple analog controller, or a microcontroller that has a display, menu, and consecutively, firmware. There is nothing complicated or “eccentric” about that in case of a soldering iron.
I’d even argue it’s the same with the device in the original post. I get it’s a joke, but let’s face it, that’s not simply a kitchen knife.
Now if anyone can tell me why the fume hood in my kitchen is wifi - enabled… I never hooked that up, obviously, and all I can think of would be push notifications in case of an upcoming filter change, you know, the thing that could be implemented with a simple LED for 4ct.
Compared to the Xbox 360 I was just working on? It might as well be a plain rock. If you try microsoldering with a straight-to-mains soldering iron, you’re going to end up with a scorched board at best and an electrical fire at worst.
Definitely not (i’m not OP) but the components on those circuit boards look far more robust than modern surface mounted caps and resistors. Plus leaded solder flows a lot easier, in my limited experience.
For full functionality, the system also requires a 4 KiB SRAM card ($139) and some form of storage controller; at a minimum this would be the H10 paper tape punch/reader or the H8-5 Serial I/O card ($110) which controls a cassette tape, using a 1200-baud variant of the Kansas City standard format.
I thought it had peaked when I had to put a hacked firmware onto my soldering iron
Huh, my soldering iron doesn’t even have an on switch, just “plugged in” or “not plugged in”. I’m not saying everything needs to be that simple but we sure do overcomplicate things in our devices.
why not? just solder an on switch into it
Unfortunately it caused an electrical fire when I tried to use the soldering iron on itself.
No I took electriciticismic wizardry in collegium that’s not how things work. Did you try plugging the fire in backwards?
Most of mine are just like that, but getting the TS100 is a real bonus for SMD stuff, for heavy stuff,and primarily for me can run off my Dewalt drill batteries. Being temp controlled with swappable bits with different elements means you can go from a tiny tip to a massive wedge using the full 100w very easily, and being able to do that inside a speaker can in a field without having to find an inverter or whatever is well worth the price of admission
That’s fine for simple work, but soldering can absolutely benefit from a temperature controller. That’s either a simple analog controller, or a microcontroller that has a display, menu, and consecutively, firmware. There is nothing complicated or “eccentric” about that in case of a soldering iron.
I’d even argue it’s the same with the device in the original post. I get it’s a joke, but let’s face it, that’s not simply a kitchen knife.
Now if anyone can tell me why the fume hood in my kitchen is wifi - enabled… I never hooked that up, obviously, and all I can think of would be push notifications in case of an upcoming filter change, you know, the thing that could be implemented with a simple LED for 4ct.
Are you saying the Heathkit I soldered over a painstaking 2 week period was… simple ?
Compared to the Xbox 360 I was just working on? It might as well be a plain rock. If you try microsoldering with a straight-to-mains soldering iron, you’re going to end up with a scorched board at best and an electrical fire at worst.
Definitely not (i’m not OP) but the components on those circuit boards look far more robust than modern surface mounted caps and resistors. Plus leaded solder flows a lot easier, in my limited experience.
Memory prices have really gone down lately huh