The Blue Alliance

While we try to bring you as much instructional video content as we can, we are busy with school and building our own robots. Sometimes we stumble across other people out there who have made something that we think you might find very helpful. When we do, we post it here so that you can learn from it and share it with others.

Today I was watching my usual set of video podcasts, and I discovered that last weekend’s edition of Weekend Projects was an entire tutorial on soldering! From simple soldering all the way to advanced techniques to remove surface mount components, it contains all kinds of great tips and tricks to help you learn to solder. You can check out the episode on the MAKE: Blog.

Soldering is an important skill for FIRST teams. Whether you’re building custom circuits for your robot, tinning crimp-on connections to ensure their strength, or building your own driver controls, you’ll probably wind up soldering something on your robot this year. Check out the episode of Weekend Projects, and good luck!