DIY (de)soldering station for $25

DIY (de)soldering station with heat gun for $25

In this article, a simple design of a soldering station is proposed. It consists of a few low cost components such as an arduino, an LCD display, an encoder and a homemade breakout board (2 opamps, 2 transistors, 1 TRIAC with a driver). The soldering station is open source Software and Hardware. So everyone can download and learn, study, edit, modify.

1.Intro 

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I explain how to make and calibrate a simple soldering station. The soldering station is controlled by an arduino. 

How to make car audio/stereo (mp3/bluetooth/radio) for $10

[audio (mp3, bluetooth, radio) module]
 

In this article I will show you how to connect this mp3 bluetooth audio module to a car.

How to make digital weather station with wireless outdoor sensors

Fig. Block diagram of a weather station

1. Sensors

I used 3 sensor modules which can be acquired via ebay or aliexpress. It seems they are cheap Chinese clones of well known sparkfun/adafruit modules. Also I made a simple sensor to monitor battery voltage. (Someone should keep a Li-ion battery above 3V level.) You can easily find arduino libraries for these modules. So modules can be used at once. But keep in mind a "chinese clone" sensor can use a different I2C address. So you may need to run an arduino script that called I2C scanner to identify these addresses and then change a device I2C address constant in a library header file to guarantee correct work the library with the module. 

I used the following devices