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Okay, I need some suport or something Oye. Okay, I'm a senior electrical engineering student, and my senior design project requires a lot of soldering work (i mean really precise tiny holes and componets). So here I am sodering along and the resistor I'm worknig on falls out. :!:

This leaves me with solder in both tiny tiny holes and no resistor. AFter 30 mins or so with soldering braid later, I get the solder and broken resistor end out of one side, leaving me a dab of solder smack in the middle of the other. After about 20 more minutes of fighting with it, I get it out, but I may have slightly destroyed a trace in the porcess. (wire component connection)

I drop the resistor, losee it and replace it with some of my personal stock. A few minutes later, I slightly crack a capacitor trying to make sure it's flat tot the pcb board (as per instructions). It looks ok...so I put it in and make a note of it.

At this point my back insists that it shouldn't be leaning over this much.

I give up, take pictures for documentation purposes, and put the kit away so the cat doesn't spread it all over the place.

Anyway (if you get to this point) send me good luck or wish me well or something. I haven't even put in the mods yet, I just want the kit working first.

I wish I'd gotten into herps earlier, I could have built a thermostat or an electronic rack system..it would have been easier than putting together a robot and modifiying the stupid thing. Heck, if I'd gotten into home brewing earlier I would have designed a carboy cart lift or something.