https://www.instructables.com/How-to-solder

Soldering Crash Course

Watch video and do the inclass quiz!

I Like to Break Things!

For this activity, you are required to make a cube 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm. (roughly 4” x 4” x 4”)

My job as a teacher is to tear it apart! (YEAH ME!)  If the solder joints are well done, I shouldn’t be able to do this successfully.  This will be marked out of 10.

Things I am looking for:

  • Are the solder joints shiny and clean or are the clumpy, dull and dirty (think of kitty litter clumps!)?
  • Is there just a minimum amount of solder or is there way too much solder?
  • Is there excess wire sticking out of the solder joints or have they neatly been trimmed up?