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What are YOUR niche hobbies? (lemmy.world)
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So, there are some things that most people do, playing games, watching movies or television, playing music. So let's get specific.

What are some of your favorite things to do with your time? The more hyper specific the better?

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[โ€“] SuperOkay@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always recommended finding an old Playstation to learn on. They are incredibly simple in layout and the points take solder very easily.

Be sure to use some flux and you shouldn't have too much of an issue.

[โ€“] deigge@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

At my company we have soldering station for learning purposes and when someone has never soldered anything we will just find some old/broken electronic device and let the person desolder everything on the board (and maybe solder some stuff back on). It's great way to get a feeling for it and also is a good opportunity to learn about different components on the board. It's less interesting than making something "functioning" but helps to reduce the fear of soldering "wrong" or breaking something.