That’s fine for simple work, but soldering can absolutely benefit from a temperature controller. That’s either a simple analog controller, or a microcontroller that has a display, menu, and consecutively, firmware. There is nothing complicated or “eccentric” about that in case of a soldering iron.
I’d even argue it’s the same with the device in the original post. I get it’s a joke, but let’s face it, that’s not simply a kitchen knife.
Now if anyone can tell me why the fume hood in my kitchen is wifi - enabled… I never hooked that up, obviously, and all I can think of would be push notifications in case of an upcoming filter change, you know, the thing that could be implemented with a simple LED for 4ct.
Compared to the Xbox 360 I was just working on? It might as well be a plain rock. If you try microsoldering with a straight-to-mains soldering iron, you’re going to end up with a scorched board at best and an electrical fire at worst.
Definitely not (i’m not OP) but the components on those circuit boards look far more robust than modern surface mounted caps and resistors. Plus leaded solder flows a lot easier, in my limited experience.
For full functionality, the system also requires a 4 KiB SRAM card ($139) and some form of storage controller; at a minimum this would be the H10 paper tape punch/reader or the H8-5 Serial I/O card ($110) which controls a cassette tape, using a 1200-baud variant of the Kansas City standard format.
That’s fine for simple work, but soldering can absolutely benefit from a temperature controller. That’s either a simple analog controller, or a microcontroller that has a display, menu, and consecutively, firmware. There is nothing complicated or “eccentric” about that in case of a soldering iron.
I’d even argue it’s the same with the device in the original post. I get it’s a joke, but let’s face it, that’s not simply a kitchen knife.
Now if anyone can tell me why the fume hood in my kitchen is wifi - enabled… I never hooked that up, obviously, and all I can think of would be push notifications in case of an upcoming filter change, you know, the thing that could be implemented with a simple LED for 4ct.
Are you saying the Heathkit I soldered over a painstaking 2 week period was… simple ?
Compared to the Xbox 360 I was just working on? It might as well be a plain rock. If you try microsoldering with a straight-to-mains soldering iron, you’re going to end up with a scorched board at best and an electrical fire at worst.
Definitely not (i’m not OP) but the components on those circuit boards look far more robust than modern surface mounted caps and resistors. Plus leaded solder flows a lot easier, in my limited experience.
Memory prices have really gone down lately huh