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Year of the Monkey Badge: Hao Xie Nian!

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Year of the MonkeyCelebrate Chinese New Year with element14!

 

Day Eight: Happy New Year!

 

Hao xie nian! The holidays are upon us, which is wonderful news, albeit the end of our element14 celebrations. And here we are, welcoming in the Year of the Monkey, and a brand new badge to usher it in.

 

Now that it's the Year of the Monkey, all you need to do to win our time-limited badge is stop by to read and comment on each of our New Year blogs. The badge will only be available to earn until February 23, after which you'll have to wait 12 years before it comes up again (given the cycle of the Chinese zodiac).

 

Monkey Business

The monkey signifies a year of creativity, innovation, and also of mischief. Which seems quite fitting for the element14 Community!image

 

So in honour of the cheeky monkey that'll be looking over our celestial shoulders this year, we want you to give all your top tips, cheats, hints and tricks that you regularly employ while working on your electronics projects.

 

Thanks for joining in with our Chinese New Year celebrations, and may you have a splendid year swinging from the trees and causing all manner of mischief!

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  • Aha, here is mine:-

    I used Nail cutter in my early days to cut/strip wires. image

    To clear solder traces between tracks I use resistors/capacitors legs or a wire rather than using desoldering wick.

    Usually I work late and many times simple components like resistor, capacitors were out of stock, I search for damaged circuits to get components from there.

    I use SMPS of computer to supply 12v/5v/3.3v to my circuits. I bought it specifically to drive my project circuit boards.
    Also, I remember using aluminium foil to make contacts (when I didn't had soldering iron/wires), used it numerous times in making tight contact between batteries in a remote or for other things.

    Cheers!! image


    mudz

  • in reply to mcb1

    I think we might have a recognizable threshold here... When you repeat that process but still have the 8 from before, it's no longer just "being prepared". Besides, that is a problem with inventory management, not hoarding.

     

    Jack

  • in reply to ntewinkel

    My wife calls this "hoarding", I call it "being prepared"

    How many is "being prepared" ??

     

    Just wanted to make sure that ordering 10 units when you need 2 isn't hoarding.

  • Top tip I can give is careful visual inspection of boards or things that are faulty.

    It is amazing how many faults can be spotted this way without any need for test instruments.

     

    The next tip would be ensure you can reproduce the fault so you can verify you have fixed it!   image

     

    Mark

  • in reply to ipv1

    According to this T-shirt the one(NEWBIE )who holding the iron until his flesh burns and cooked until it smells like a chicken?...AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...Sorry not for me...I am very normal human being which react to the heat contact under 10ms... image

     

    In short, it's stupidly OVER EXAGGERATED... image