Sure, it always just starts with "I'll just solder a few resistors here; what's the problem?", but before you know it your kid is gonna be out there giving acid baths to PCBs.
I used to carry one around for work, the butane ones.
They were great for field technicians, they would work for 3 or 4 solders then be out of butane or just simply stop working for the day lol. Definitely could have been just a shitty style, but it was never the most reliable tool in my bag!
Just like how cats offloaded all the thinking onto humans who serve them, and now we're offloading all the thinking onto chips who we will serve... o hwait
My relatives (I lived with them for a few years) found my leftover pipettes and stirring rods from my chemistry classes in my room and they genuinely thought I was doing drugs. One of them harassed me over it and another told me that she's always open if I need to talk about it. But whenever I try explaining that it's for school she brushes me off lmao
Not ragging on anyone for ignorance, never will, but it's a little weird how many people are asking what these are, especially in such a nerdy community.
Yeah, the first kind is more common when you're a beginner hobbyist and are just starting to learn to solder just using a run of the mill soldering iron and soldering wire, whilst the second kind at the very least requires some experience soldering and a steady hand - as even the largest surface mount components are smaller the Through Hold equivalents and generally one doesn't use the largest - or some special equipment (a soldering over and solder paste - which a paste for of solder which, unlike solder wire, spoils with time if unused).
However you can make way smaller circuits with the second kind (even if using the bigger surface mount components, though with the smaller ones the different is insane and some things are only really possible in practice to make with the smaller surface mount components) plus many integrated circuits only come in surface mount versions.
Also the second kind can be wholly and easilly assembled by machines (in fact the really small surface mount components are near impossible for humans to properly place), which is why if you open an electronic device nowadays you'll see it's almost or even entirelly made up of surface mounted components.
Mind you, nowadays even a hobbyist can just design a circuit with surface mount components and have the whole thing assembled by shops which will do small runs (like just 10 units) all of which pretty cheaply of you use one of the Chinese companies that do those things.
Can't really tell for sure from the picture but it looks like the purest shit (at worse 5%, possibly even 2%) rather than the run of the mill 10% stuff.
Drugs, engineering, what's the difference, both leave you unable to sleep for weeks on end because of the imaginary components of a problem nobody else understands
Next thing you know your room is at perfect temperature all year round with just a few lines of micro python and he keeps a pocket scope under his pillow.
Ohmy god...ops kid is probably fine, VRI responsible.
If he starts hanging out with a kid named Eli tho, be careful. I hear he's selling crystal meth now. Idk anything about him except that they call him the "ICE man".
76 Comments
ozymandias@sh.itjust.works · 156 pts · 242d
it’s for resisting peer pressure
witty_username@feddit.nl · 42 pts · 242d
Carvex@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 242d
Got me really amped up
bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 242d
Watt are you talking about
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 242d
Just follow the current
Ersatz86@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 242d
Really enjoying the arc of this comment tree
fartographer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 242d
If not for those, he'd be inhaling magic smoke
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz · 133 pts · 242d
Sure, it always just starts with "I'll just solder a few resistors here; what's the problem?", but before you know it your kid is gonna be out there giving acid baths to PCBs.
EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 242d
Ohh I thought they were pins and the kids was tailoring his clothes.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 242d
I thought it was some odd looking embroidery.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 89 pts · 242d
Found his kit, please help:
tetris11@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 242d
This is so overkill; all you need is a lighter and a spoon, and those contacts basically bond themselves
xthexder@l.sw0.com · 9 pts · 242d
I mean, you solder pipes with a flame, why not circuit boards too?
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 242d
There used to be little butane soldering irons back in the day before lithium batteries took over.
xthexder@l.sw0.com · 4 pts · 242d
Every soldering iron I've ever used has been a desktop station that plugs into the wall.
Apparently portable soldering irons in general are quite a new concept (1984): https://portasol.com/about-us
Zoot@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 241d
I used to carry one around for work, the butane ones.
They were great for field technicians, they would work for 3 or 4 solders then be out of butane or just simply stop working for the day lol. Definitely could have been just a shitty style, but it was never the most reliable tool in my bag!
rooster_butt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 242d
Paperclip might work better, less thermal mass.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 8 pts · 242d
Fuck! This is a 21st century vampire hunting kit!
Sabata11792@ani.social · 70 pts · 242d
The one time my mom sat me down and had a talk about the thermal compound syringe she found while cleaning...
rumba@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 242d
These look shady AF too :)
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 242d
they are fine at the lower capacities. the higher ones die almost immediately though
rumba@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 242d
often mistaken for disposable vapes
xorollo@leminal.space · 9 pts · 242d
I got some little baggies intended to hold stamps (as part of a magazine feature) and received a sit down talk about marijuana.
falseWhite@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 242d
tomiant@piefed.social · 14 pts · 242d
Imagine dating a valkyrie. You did well, child.
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 242d
but Wonder Woman is Amazonian.....
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 241d
Hey if you want to date an Amazonian instead you go ahead, if you think you can.
Haaveilija@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 242d
And for becoming a heroine, he would need transistors instead
tetris11@feddit.uk · 39 pts · 242d
All this is a gateway drug to
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 242d
I think they call it a micro controller because it gets inside your brain and controls you!!!
tetris11@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 242d
Just like how cats offloaded all the thinking onto humans who serve them, and now we're offloading all the thinking onto chips who we will serve... o hwait
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 39 pts · 242d
Is that a reference to interest in electronics being a gateway drug to gender transition?
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 70 pts · 242d
Connect LGBTQ+ to LGBTQ-
A7thStone@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 242d
When I first started setting lgbt I was wondering why everyone was interested in insulated gate bipolar transistors.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 242d
tetris11@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 242d
gonna need a 4kOhm resistor to do a pull down for that. You'll be Queer, but you won't be happy about it.
ladicius@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 242d
FTFY.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 4 pts · 242d
From transistors to trans sisters
M137@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 242d
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
mediOchre@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 242d
My relatives (I lived with them for a few years) found my leftover pipettes and stirring rods from my chemistry classes in my room and they genuinely thought I was doing drugs. One of them harassed me over it and another told me that she's always open if I need to talk about it. But whenever I try explaining that it's for school she brushes me off lmao
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 23 pts · 242d
Worse, he is "soldering"
user1234@lemmynsfw.com · 14 pts · 242d
Resistance is futile
shalafi@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 242d
Not ragging on anyone for ignorance, never will, but it's a little weird how many people are asking what these are, especially in such a nerdy community.
Ledivin@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 242d
You're not gonna believe this, but most chemists never touch electronics. "Nerdy" is a really, really, really wide category.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 7 pts · 242d
You can be a nerd about anything. A language nerd who speaks 20 languages and studies ancient Akkadian for fun won't know what those are.
I mean I am a nerd, but I haven't much of a clue about trees and plant life.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 242d
They grow and are all plant-y.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 242d
“Enchanting nerds and alchemy nerds are two different groups of wizardry. They don’t share their secrets outside the group!”
-some guy named Clarke or something, I dunno.
waigl@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 242d
I found two posts in this entire thread asking what these actually are. That's not a whole lot.
Markus29@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 242d
Could just be my client but the image is so pixelated and the resistors are quite small. So it took me a while to see as well.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 13 pts · 242d
I guess she encountered a lot of resistance from all those!
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 242d
What is it actually?
mx_smith@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 242d
Electronic parts. Resistors. Probably about 66 ohms resistance looking at the color bands.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 40 pts · 242d
A better copy reveals a yellowish color on top. Therefore, I lean towards 470 Ω, which is a way more common value.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 242d
Is this going to be the Lemmy version of The Dress?
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 242d
No, because resistors have a set color pattern even if the pixels aren't much.
Ooops@feddit.org · 5 pts · 242d
No, this coding just is actualy complex and low quality pictures don't show enough
mx_smith@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 242d
Yeah I thought it was blue blue black blue, but my eyesight and the image resolution are not that great.
dave@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 242d
This guy resists.
waigl@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 242d
It's a pack of resistors. Electrical resistors for building electronic circuits.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 242d
Here's a circuit board with resistors installed. They're used by hobbyists to make their own boards.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CznnpTiCZuk
However, even for hobbyists, surface mount versions are now common:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xjWBOvforb8
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 242d
Yeah, the first kind is more common when you're a beginner hobbyist and are just starting to learn to solder just using a run of the mill soldering iron and soldering wire, whilst the second kind at the very least requires some experience soldering and a steady hand - as even the largest surface mount components are smaller the Through Hold equivalents and generally one doesn't use the largest - or some special equipment (a soldering over and solder paste - which a paste for of solder which, unlike solder wire, spoils with time if unused).
However you can make way smaller circuits with the second kind (even if using the bigger surface mount components, though with the smaller ones the different is insane and some things are only really possible in practice to make with the smaller surface mount components) plus many integrated circuits only come in surface mount versions.
Also the second kind can be wholly and easilly assembled by machines (in fact the really small surface mount components are near impossible for humans to properly place), which is why if you open an electronic device nowadays you'll see it's almost or even entirelly made up of surface mounted components.
Mind you, nowadays even a hobbyist can just design a circuit with surface mount components and have the whole thing assembled by shops which will do small runs (like just 10 units) all of which pretty cheaply of you use one of the Chinese companies that do those things.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 242d
Yes, he is. But these are just resistors.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 242d
Gonna be a bit hard to push heroin through those. Lotta resistsnce.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 242d
Can't really tell for sure from the picture but it looks like the purest shit (at worse 5%, possibly even 2%) rather than the run of the mill 10% stuff.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 242d
Agreed. Super annoying when people ask questions without a question mark.
luciole@beehaw.org · 8 pts · 242d
What's this really?
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website · 20 pts · 242d
Resistors.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 242d
So much worse. Kid's gonna be an engineer.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 242d
Drugs, engineering, what's the difference, both leave you unable to sleep for weeks on end because of the imaginary components of a problem nobody else understands
Ledivin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 242d
And, let's be real - they often go hand-in-hand, anyway.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 242d
Worse, he's picked up a nasty through-hole habit.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 241d
Next thing you know your room is at perfect temperature all year round with just a few lines of micro python and he keeps a pocket scope under his pillow.
ekZepp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 242d
He need that to keep in check the "High Times".
xep@discuss.online · 3 pts · 242d
I hear you can do them end to end for a more potent effect!
Ininewcrow@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 242d
There was a clip I saw of a mother going through their child's text....
YOLO? What's that!!!! .... Is YOLO a drug!!!???
MumboJumbo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 242d
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 242d
TIL
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 1 pts · 242d
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 242d
Ohmy god...ops kid is probably fine, VRI responsible.
If he starts hanging out with a kid named Eli tho, be careful. I hear he's selling crystal meth now. Idk anything about him except that they call him the "ICE man".
janus2@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 242d
my chemistry-addled brain thought these were GC outlet liners with some weird blue filter material in the middle