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    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.

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      This is so overkill; all you need is a lighter and a spoon, and those contacts basically bond themselves

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              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!

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    The one time my mom sat me down and had a talk about the thermal compound syringe she found while cleaning…

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    All this is a gateway drug to

        5V-|   |       |   |-3V3
       GND-|   |       |   |-IO16
      IO12-|   |_______|   |-IO0
      IO13-|               |-GND
      IO15-|               |-VCC
      IO14-|               |-UDR
       IO2-|   ESP32-CAM   |-UDT
       IO4-|_______________|-GND
    
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        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

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    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

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    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.

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      You’re not gonna believe this, but most chemists never touch electronics. “Nerdy” is a really, really, really wide category.

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        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.

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        “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.

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      I found two posts in this entire thread asking what these actually are. That’s not a whole lot.

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      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.

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    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.

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      Electronic parts. Resistors. Probably about 66 ohms resistance looking at the color bands.

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        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.

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      It’s a pack of resistors. Electrical resistors for building electronic circuits.