Soldering my own circuit!
All my training had been leading up to this moment, I was ready. I had my bread board plan prepared. I’d just practised doing 10 Hershey kisses on a fake bread board. Soldering is really fun, plus I believe I may have done the most perfect Hershey of Hershey kisses ever. It had a nice rounded base and it arose to the top perfectly. But now I was ready!
I grabbed what I needed:
- Solder wire
- Soldering iron
- Soldering fan
- Bread board
- 2x resisters
- 2x lights
- Battery
- Red wire
- Black wire
- glasses
Fan on; check. Iron on; check! Let’s do this. !Insert intense music here! I grab my red wire, thread it through the loop, grab the wire and I soldered. Perfect ready for the next one. Black wire through the loop, get the solder and BAM, black wire not so done! I may or may not have accidentally stuck the wire in the wrong way, whoops! Well luckily it’s an easy fix I just placed the iron on the solder and came clean off, or should I say grey off! No, I shouldn’t say that, see the joke was that solder is grey and yep I should stop now anyway… Next I got my resister placed it through the holes and I did another perfect solder! I’m on fire! Next resister, done. I then cut the rest of the unneeded wire off. Wow this is a lot easier than I expected it to be.
Now it’s time to get my lights on. I was a little nervous about my lights to be honest, because I was scared that they wouldn’t work and I would have to start my whole circuit again. I slowly grab my first light out of the bag, I double check if it is going through the right hole. I grab the soldering iron and wire and begin. Slowly I make the most amazing, incredibly wonderful Hershey kiss ever! It was so beautiful I could cry… Next light… Piece of cake!
Now it was time for the moment of truth. My sweaty thumb reaches for the button, a slow click and… ONE LIGHT! Wait one light! Well I realised that I put my light in the wrong way, whoops. Try again, lights, solder, action. And now no lights… Well isn’t this just the greatest day ever. Could things get any worse, yes, yes they could. My board decided to have a hissy fit a gave me an overly large electric shock, I felt my arm jiggling. I don’t when, I don’t know how but my electric shock told my board to light the second light! I’d done it, a complete light circuit! I felt like this was the best day of my life.
So in the end I finally finished my box…