SMD Solder class 14th May

[Alan Wood]

I would like to announce the first Rlab Surface Mount Device (SMD) soldering class on Tuesday the 14th May to celebrate the new space and also feed the need for the TVRRUGrs SMD enthusiasm ;-)

This class was successfully alpha tested at SHH:

Here are some pics from the SMD event:

SMD class at SHH - https://plus.google.com/photos/106755434699864435571/albums/5863013893194627985

Here is what we built:

PiBot - https://plus.google.com/photos/106755434699864435571/albums/5863015656435198257

Pibot Project  - http://solderpad.com/folknology/pibot/

PiBot is designed to be a nice entry level introduction project for SMD assembly and you get to take away self built useful little Raspberry Pi experimenter addon.

Cost including PiBot parts and consumables is £10, we will provide tools although if you want to bring your own please do. We also would like you to donate to hackspace (Rlabs) for the use of their facilities and to support the community (suggest £5 or more).

I already have at least 8 TVRRUGrs expressing interest

Please respond here if you are interested.

regards

Al

[Alan Wood]

Oh BTW TVRRUGrs so far : Alex Gibson, David Price, Stuart Ward, Malcolm Napier, Sham A, Andy Hayward, Graham Eales and Hugo mills

[Alan Wood]

And presumably we will be able to do it at the current space (if we haven't moved by then)..

regards

Al

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Alan Wood <folkn...@gmail.com> wrote:

OK Ryan, I have marked it as preliminary for now, subject to confirmation asap.

regards

Al

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[Alan Wood]

OK Ryan, I have marked it as preliminary for now, subject to confirmation asap.

regards

Al

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Alan Wood <folkn...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Stuart Ward]

Chaps

I have put a entry on the space wiki for this.

Stuart

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[Keegan]

What time will this be happening on the 14th?  If evening then I'm game, my soldering skills definitely need work and I've need of SMD skills too.

On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 16:25:33 UTC+1, Alan Wood wrote:

[Alan Wood]

Hi Jason it will be an evening event

regards

Al

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[Matthew Daubney]

Count me in :)

[Gary Fletcher]

How do we book a space?
 

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[Jason Neave]

Me too. :)

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[Alan Wood]

"How do we book a space?"

For now just by replying here, we are also still awaiting confirmation as to venue around the move to Rlab (We might need to fall back to storage king which could limit numbers).

regards

Al

[Gary Fletcher]

ok count me in :) heard fab things about this!
 

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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:16:05 +0100

Subject: Re: [RDG-Hack] Re: SMD Solder class 14th May

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[Richard Osterloh]

I'd be keen

[Andrew Jacobs]

I'm game. Keep a space for me

[Richard Ibbotson]

Is that an 0603 or a 0805 ?

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[Paul Lettington]

I'm also interested in that. Count me in.

I've also added a placeholder event to the Rlab Google calendar (linked
from http://rlab.org.uk/wiki/Events ).

Paul.

[Alan Wood]

Thanks Paul

[Alan Wood]

Richard we go down to 0603s but no lower for the class, I do however show smaller parts so folk know what they might come across later!

regards

Al

[Dean]

I'm interested.

[Alastair Swaffer]

Yes please!

On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 16:25:33 UTC+1, Alan Wood wrote:

[Gareth Jones]

I'd like to do this...

On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 16:25:33 UTC+1, Alan Wood wrote:

[Richard Ibbotson]

Are there any rlab tools, materials, etc you need for the class? Just in case we haven't found them yet.

The main rlab room is pretty clear. How do you want it set up ?

[Tom Allen]

I can drop the 8ft table back down. There are loads of chairs there. How many ppl are confirmed attending?

On 12 May 2013 09:51, "Richard Ibbotson" <richard....@btinternet.com> wrote:

Are there any rlab tools, materials, etc you need for the class? Just in case we haven't found them yet.

The main rlab room is pretty clear. How do you want it set up ?

[Alan Wood]

Hi Guys

Well the stereo microscope is really handy for looking at one's handy work and visually checking for problems etc.. so if that's unpacked it would be useful.

We also need benches and tables to work on along with the brightest lighting we can muster, as well as some power blocks and extension leads, enough for all attending.

Everything else we will supply (Robin and I)

P.S. if anyone has tweezers please bring them along as we may need some extras

regards

Al

[Alan Wood]

By the way investing in a quality pair of antistatic tweezers is a very good idea if you plan any SMD work, these can be had on ebay or dealextreme from china. However if you need a pair quickly I found a uk supplier:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Anti-Magnetic-Fine-Precision-Tweezer-for-Eyelash-Extensions-Stainless-Steel-/221208245968?pt=UK_Health_Beauty_Make_Up_Sets_LE&hash=item338109f6d0

I am sure there are others also.

A good hacker is never without his/her tweezers ;-)

regards

Al

[Ryan .]

Very true, ill bring my set down from work if you guys promise to be nice to them! :-) stereo microscope is set up

[Gary Fletcher]

how do we know if we're attending this class, is there a list? I did put my name down... did I miss something?

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Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 13:47:12 +0100

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[Alan Wood]

well all you need to do is turn up, but its also good to reply to this thread to let us know rough numbers

regards

Al

[Hugo Mills]

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 06:47:59PM +0100, Alan Wood wrote:
> well all you need to do is turn up, but its also good to reply to this
> thread to let us know rough numbers

What time should we be there? (Apologies if this was already
mentioned elsewhere, but I don't see it on the website).

Hugo.

> regards
> Al
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>
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Gary Fletcher <garygf...@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> > how do we know if we're attending this class, is there a list? I did put
> > my name down... did I miss something?
> >

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[daprigoo]

I'll be there
David

[Dean]

I'm most likely going to have to back out but I may show up, we'll see...

[Alan Wood]

7pm kick off 

regards

Al

[Tom Allen]

Have dropped a table off by the roller shutter and looks like richard dropped a desk off too. Freed all the chairs up last night and ryan dropped off power bars so 15min moving things into place and you should be good to go! Hope it goes well :)

[Alan Wood]

Thanks Tom

[Peter Mc]

Is this still a drop in type event, I'm not sure what my work commitment is this evening,

but would be keen to give it a go. (and also play with the kit, on my pi afterwards...)

Also, would it be possible to join the hackspace, pay subs get details etc... at the same time (this eve).

but I must say details on this seem quite sparse...

[Alan Wood]

Peter, Yes please come down if you can, we can also get you joined up.

regards

Al

[Gary Fletcher]

Just a quick note to say this was brill last night, thank you so much Alan, it was informative and fun and Andrews oven was awesome!
 
Very well executed!
 
thanks
 
Gary
 

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Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 16:04:19 +0000

[Andy Hayward]

+1, awesome evening, thanks Alan.

Small request: For those of us who had to leave early, could you post details of where that wire goes ...

[Alan Wood]

Thanks for the feedback folks, It was a privilege to fire off the 1st new event at our amazing new Rlab, great evening thanks for all of you making the effort to take part.

Andy the mod wire connects from pin 22 on the Pi GPIO header (before you add the female socket so its underneath it) which then connects to pin1 on IC4 IC4 is the adjacent chip and at right angles to the larger microcontroller chip (IC2).

We will be working on getting more documentation up this and next week in addition to the design files : http://www.solderpad.com/folknology/pibot/ will keep everyone in the loop via this thread.

regards

Al