While building the mPrinter, we’ve assembled a lot of prototypes. While it’s certainly possible to solder 0402 and 0603 surface mount components by hand, it’s not a lot of fun. If you don’t want to hand solder, there are two main ways to do small-scale reflow: an oven or a hot air rework station. We went with a small oven, and this post goes over a bit of the experiences we had.
Make a robot friend with Adafruit’s CRICKIT – A Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit. It’s an add-on to our popular Circuit Playground Express, FEATHER and other platforms to make and program robots with CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. Start controlling motors, servos, solenoids. You also get signal pins, capacitive touch sensors, a NeoPixel driver and amplified speaker output. It complements & extends your boards so you can still use all the goodies on the microcontroller, now you have a robotics playground as well.
