Soldering pool

In the soldering pool, you will solder together a circuit board that can later be used to accompany the exercises in order to build up exercise results as a real circuit and thus check the results.

You will receive the circuit board and all components required for assembly as well as the opportunity to assemble the circuit board in a four-hour block course with supervision.

The aim is to provide an initial practical link between the lecture material and 'real' hardware and to reduce fears of hardware. We learn what the circuit does and how it works during the lecture and exercises.

There is also an introduction and a demo at the beginning of your 4-hour block.

You can find a description of soldering in general in Wikipedia: https: //de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Löten

A fun introduction, also as a video, can be found here at adafruit: Adafruit Guide to Excellent Soldering

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-guide-excellent-soldering/tools

You are able to

• Place components on a circuit board using a placement plan,
• insert components with the correct polarity,
• make solder contacts with a soldering iron ("soldering"),
• recognize successful/unsuccessful solder joints by their appearance,
• correct faulty solder joints.

The circuit board that you solder together is called a 'CLB'. Further information on the background and application can be found on the CLB pages.