Despite the fact that I own a Cold Heat Soldering Tool, I was made painfully aware that I don’t know very much about actually wiring electronic components together.
The only experience I have at doing anything of this nature is messing with a programmable circuitboard during my Computer Architecture masters course at WIU. The “technique” if you can call it that was simply inserting the bare ends of a wire into two breadboard holes adjacent to the power supply/component that you wanted to connect and then writing assembler commands to make the reprogrammable chip do what you wanted it to do.
There was no soldering (which I’m sure there is a technique for), or mention of terms that I know to be important such as resistance and grounding and what not. I can read a schematic pretty well as a result, but I don’t know how to actually physically do any of this stuff.
Soldering doesn’t concern me that much, but concepts such as how to ground a circuit and how to test this thing before I subject it to my motherboard are big gaps in my know-how on this project.
I’m posting this in hopes that either some of you have some know-how to share, or are able to do a better job in Googling up a guide to help this idiot out. 🙂
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