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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!
How to Use a Hot Air Rework Station
Hot-air stations or heat guns are very useful tools and are essential for any electronics workbench. When working with or building printed circuit boards, there is a lot of room for errors to be made. Have no fear though, there are ways to remedy this with a hot air rework station!
Lumenati Hookup Guide
Lumenati is our line of APA102c-based addressable LED boards. We'll show you how to bring the sparkle to your projects!
Motion Controlled Wearable LED Dance Harness
Control LEDs based on your movement using an accelerometer! Make your LEDs breathe by fading in and out when laying on the floor, turn off the LEDs when moving to your side, or make the LEDs blink in a headstand!
Qwiic Haptic Driver DA7280 Hookup Guide
The Qwiic Haptic Driver includes an itty-bitty, Linear Resonant Actuator (LRA) vibration motor and Dialog Semiconductor's DA7280 motor driver IC for applications that require haptic feedback.
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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The SparkFun Wireless Joystick Kit provides an easy way to control your next XBee project.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 BigTime watch kit is a geekishly stylish digital watch with a NATO style watch-band and a slick acrylic enclosur…
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