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General discussion / What would you do with a thermal laminator?

December 11, 2014, 05:04:46 pm

One of the Amazon "Deal of the Day" items today is this Thermal Laminator, for $17. Seems like at the very least, it might have some useful parts in it. And I've seen others mention the possibility to use one for PCB transfers.

What would you do with one?

Bus Pirate Development / Hand solder BP 3.8?

October 20, 2014, 12:05:43 am

So a while back, I won a free Bus Pirate 3.8 board. Last week, I finally got around to ordering all the components I needed from Mouser, and they arrived a couple of days ago.

I was planning to try to hand-solder everything, but now that I see with my own eyes just how small some of the components are, I'm wondering if I'm up to to the task. Should I go ahead and give it a try, or should I just hang onto everything until I have a chance to get an old toaster oven to convert for reflow?

If hand-soldering isn't near-impossible, any generic advice?

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Time

Memory

Function

Location

0.0116

2261360

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0.0119

2392960

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0.0119

2393736

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.../DatabaseHandler.php:119

0.0574

2532472

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.../Db-mysql.class.php:273