{"id":9410,"date":"2007-01-16T01:08:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T01:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9410"},"modified":"2007-01-16T01:08:31","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T01:08:31","slug":"dont-forget-kids-its-learn-to-solder-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9410","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Forget, Kids: It&#8217;s Learn to Solder Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/solderMonth.jpg\">Seems like we stumbled over some converging geek cultural vectors with our <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=Reviews&#038;file=index&#038;req=showcontent&#038;id=68\">Thumbnail Guide to Soldering<\/a>. It came out at the same time that Bre Pettis was working on MAKE&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/01\/soldering_tutor_1.html\" target=\"new\">solder how-to netcast<\/a>. They made our Guide into a PDF to travel with the netcast and we&#8217;re still getting crazy links o&#8217; love on the Web version. And now, Instructables has declared January &#8220;Learn to Solder Month.&#8221; They have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/E7LBBZNKI2EWP87604\/\" target=\"new\">a page<\/a> on their site with soldering resources, links to beginner solder projects, and if you post an Instructable geared towards beginner solderers this month, they&#8217;ll send you an Instructables patch you can sew onto your Star Fleet uniform, Robot Wars team jumpsuit, or other geekly attire of choice. <\/p>\n<p> But the important thing is to fire up that iron and start polluting the upper and lower atmospheres in earnest. And if you have any questions related to soldering, don&#8217;t be afraid to ask. <\/p>\n<p> BTW: I&#8217;m working on our next Thumbnail Guide now. It&#8217;ll be on Breadboarding. Stay tuned&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like we stumbled over some converging geek cultural vectors with our Thumbnail Guide to Soldering. It came out at the same time that Bre Pettis was working on MAKE&#8217;s solder how-to netcast. They made our Guide into a PDF to travel with the netcast and we&#8217;re still getting crazy links o&#8217; love on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9410\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget, Kids: It&#8217;s Learn to Solder Month!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}