EPE’s “Basic Soldering Guide”
In MAKE 01 we have a great soldering primer, here’s another to check out from the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library. “This written guide will help beginners and novices to obtain effective results when soldering electronic components. If you have little or no experience of using a soldering iron, then EPE recommends that you practice your soldering technique on some fresh surplus components and clean stripboard (protoboard), before experimenting with a proper constructional project. This will help you to avoid the risk of disappointment when you start to assemble your first prototypes. If you’ve never soldered before, then read on!” Link.
“Radii-a 1950s-style radio with Internet content – a box with buttons and dials used to select bands and tune stations in a familiar way. Because this radio receives Internet radio, it provides hundreds of noise-free stations with a wide variety of listening options. The band selection dial, instead of AM and FM, is used to select genres such as News, Sports and Rock. The station selection dial scrolls through station names that can be tuned by clicking the select button.” Thanks 
Handy how to on making printed circuit boards, Incepinar writes – “I spent a lot of time to find an easy to use PCB drawing program and failed. (Believe there should be lots of but it’s just me can’t find it!) All of them I came across were either so professional or hard to handle. So, in admiration of the AMIGA’s Deluxe Paint, I decided to use Windows’s Paint program to create my own PCBs. All I needed was it’s copy and paste functionality. Thus any other drawing editor on any Operating System may be utilized for the following work style that I currently (and will continue to) use.” 
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