Chad's Crappy Corner & His New Theme For May 2018.

Chad polled our loyal Patreon members and asked them to vote on his cheap theme for May. Their choice “Cheap DIY Gadgets”!

This week Chad's first pick is the Elenco AmeriKit Learn to Solder Kit

Here's what Amazon says about it: A must for a budding electronics engineer learning how to solder. After practicing your soldering techniques on the special area of the board, you'll be ready to assemble a European style siren with flashing LED's. This kit also includes solder, a soldering iron and wire cutters. Needs a 9 volt battery for testing soldered circuits. This kit requires soldering. Learn to solder on the special practice section of your printed circuit board (PCB). Includes: solder, soldering iron and wire cutters. Ages 12 and up. SOLDERING REQUIRED. Under $17.

And Chad's take: Chad loved this kit! He never much experience soldering and didn't even have a soldering iron. So here for under $20 (Under $17 on Amazon) he got the kit which includes a working soldering iron, soldering, LED, printed circuit board and plenty of parts that need to be soldered. Chad was REALLY impressed that the circuit board has a whole area for 'practice' soldering. (Be sure to watch the video of Chad working in this weeks' show.) The best part is that when it's done and you turn it on, if the LED's blinking and speaker makes noise, you've completed all the steps correctly!

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