This past Sunday Splatspace held another Beginning Soldering class, at which about 10 attendees learned the basics of electronic assembly using kits from Velleman, Adafruit, and Solarbotics.

Our youngest attendee was 10 years old and successfully completed her first solo soldering project, a Velleman holiday ornament.

This event was also the first usage of our new solder fume-filter. Triangle Ecycling (triangleecycling.com) donated two large case fans. We had hoped to use them in this design from Thingiverse, but the fans were so big that our printer couldn’t handle the print. So we used that as a base and designed our own. With an activated carbon filter, it worked very well. We plan to make another of this size as well as some other, slightly smaller, 3D-printed ones.