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We've only just begun to travel down the soldering rabbit hole. Once you have mastered PTH soldering, you can try your hand at these other skills and tutorials.
For more information about soldering castellated mounting holes to pads, check out our guide on soldering castellated holes.
How to Solder: Castellated Mounting Holes
Tutorial showing how to solder castellated holes (or castellations). This might come in handy if you need to solder a module or PCB to another PCB. These castellations are becoming popular with integrated WiFi and Bluetooth modules.
Or check out the following tutorials to solder a surface mount component (SMD) to a breakout board.
Looking for more tutorials with soldering? Try taking a look at any tutorial tagged with soldering!
Qwiic Adapter Hookup Guide
Get started with your Qwiic adapter board. This adapter breaks out the I2C pins from the Qwiic connectors to pins that you can easily solder with your favorite I2C enabled device.
Interactive 3D Printed LED Diamond Prop
In this tutorial, we will learn about how to create an interactive theatrical prop for a performance by 3D printing a translucent diamond prop using a non-addressable RGB LED strip and AT42QT1011 capacitive touch sensing.
And, of course, what's a soldering tutorial without something to solder. SparkFun sells a variety of kits that are great for honing your soldering skills. There's even a Learn to Solder series of kits that have all the tools necessary to get started.
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This Flashlight Soldering Kit is an easy to assemble soldering kit designed to help teach the basics of through hole solderin…
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This is the latest version of our popular through-hole Simon Says Kit. We've made some changes to the board that should make …
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Have you ever seen a [Weevil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weevil)? It's a pretty under-appreciated beetle, so we thought it…
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This is the SparkFun Decade Resistance Box, an involved PTH soldering kit that allows you to quickly and accurately dial in a…
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The SparkFun ProtoShield Kit lets you customize your own Arduino shield using whatever circuit you can come up with and then …
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KIT-14635
With this Lighthouse kit you will be able to learn the basics and intermediate skills of soldering by being able to assemble …
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Binary Blaster is a game designed to help teach what binary numbers are and how to convert from decimal (and hexadecimal) to …
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KIT-14637
This black version of the Day of the Geek soldering kit you will be able to learn the basics of soldering by being able to as…
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KIT-14636
This white version of the Day of the Geek soldering kit you will be able to learn the basics of soldering by being able to as…
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KIT-14639
The Unigeek is a soldering kit that teaches you the basics of PTH and SMD soldering while assembling a light up unicorn badge…
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KIT-14640
With the heART Surface Mount Soldering Kit you will be able to learn the basics of SMD soldering by being able to assemble a …
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The SparkFun Wireless Joystick Kit provides an easy way to control your next XBee project.
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The SparkFun SparkPunk Kit is a sound generator made in the spirit of the Atari Punk Console. Rather than simply recreating t…
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The Night Light is an intermediate kit that provides good lessons for individuals looking to expand their soldering expertise…
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The SparkFun SparkPunk Sequencer is a musical control voltage sequencer designed to control the SparkPunk Sound Kit. With the…
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The SparkFun BigTime watch kit is a geekishly stylish digital watch with a NATO style watch-band and a slick acrylic enclosur…
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Pogo pins make life so much easier when you are trying to program without having to solder a single thing, and when you attac…
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