The Hackaday crew acquitted themselves well, and though an 01005 resistor and LED certainly pushes a writer’s soldering skills to the limit it’s very satisfying to see it working. Lest that ...

There’s an old adage that when performing a live demo, previously working hacks will mysteriously go awry. In this case, the hardware demo was doomed before it ever arrived at the conference.

Then, it is stripped at the tip and coated with flux, a cleaning agent that makes soldering and welding of metals a little easier. Next in line are the LED light bulbs. They're fed into the ...

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