We are currently on hiatus but check out all of our awesome past livestream content below!
Past Livestream Videos & Highlights:
Solder Sesh #60 - Elecia White of Logical Elegance & Embedded.fm
We had a great time chatting with Elecia about everything from how she learned embedded programming to different products she's worked on to writing books to teaching classes to her interest in origami to all sorts of other stuff too!
Solder Sesh #59 - JP Wenger aka "Balloon Man" & Hot Air Society
JP is a friend of ours and he's a fellow LEDaholic! Over the past year, he dove deep into making 3D printed fiber optic LED-lit hot air balloons, and we put together a tiny balloon kit he's developed live, and hear all about his path into STEM and maker journey!
Solder Sesh #58 - Ben Hencke / Electromage of PixelBlaze
We were super excited to welcome Ben to the stream! We add LEDs and a PixelBlaze to a sign and show you how to use the awesome LED microcontroller platform to light up your own projects! And we dig into PixelBlaze history, show off some NEW NEW NEW features, and hear all about Ben's journey to LED wizardry.
Solder Sesh #57 - Claire Cassidy aka LaserMistress!
We were so excited to talk to Claire and totally geek out about lasers! We show off some of her awesome designs, talk about what it was like running her laser-based business and doing shows, and how she got into STEM stuff.
Solder Sesh #56 - The Arduino Team and the Make Your UNO Kit
Solder Sesh #55 - Fluxes and Solder Wick and SMT Supplies - Oh My!
This week it's just Carrie and she evaluated some new-to-us fluxes and solder wick, and she tested them on a Foxy Pride badge with the microscope set up!
Solder Sesh #54 - Jorvon Moss / Odd Jayy and Bots!
This week we chat bots with Jayy and he shows us a NEW bot he's designing for workshops with Digi-Key! We printed some parts and do a test assembly of it live on the stream!
Solder Sesh #53 - Dr. Anuradha Reddy
We talk electronics, craft, and activism with Dr. Anuradha Reddy this week, while crocheting a very handy pincushion for all those thru-hole resistors you've got lying on your desk!
Solder Sesh #52 - Nancy Otero of Kitco
Our Guest this week was Nancy who is a Mexican-American software engineer and CEO-founder of Kitco - modular cardboard-based construction systems that are compatible with Arduino and micro:bit, which educators use to create open-ended projects with students.
Solder Sesh #51 - It's Krampustime!
We build our Festive Palm Tree and our NEW never seen before Merry Solderless Krampus kit, and go over the PCB Merry Krampus code and show you how to hack it.
Solder Sesh #50 - Solderless Snowflake and Chilly Snow Cloud
We debut our new upcoming SOLDERLESS snowflake kit, and solder up one of our Chilly Snow Clouds!
Solder Sesh #49 - Danielle Boyer of the Steam Connection & Skobots
Danielle creates companion bots that help preserve and teach Native American languages, while also teaching the basics of robotics and STEM.
Solder Sesh #48 - An Alpenglow Update & Supercon Recap
We did a recap of SuperCon and show off all of the awesome swag we got from some amazing makers! We also show off new boards we've made and we do an Alpenglow update since it's been several months (spoiler alert: we got a laser!)
Solder Sesh #47 - Kitty Yeung of Art by Physicist
Kitty's work encompasses all of our favorite things - circuit boards, LEDs, cats, and textiles! We talk about it all this week, demonstrate her BLE flower PCBs and talk about the code, and dive into her latest product - Meow!
Solder Sesh #46- Joey Castillo & Sensor Watch
We were so excited to have Joey Castillo, creator of the Sensor Watch on the show, we replaced the board on our yellow Casio LIVE and talk to him all about the project!
Solder Sesh #45 - Anne Barela of adafruit!
Anne Barela rounds up All Things CircuitPython for adafruit, she wrote 2 books for Make, she was in the US foreign service for many years, and has worked for JPL/NASA. We talk to her about all of it!
Solder Sesh #44 - Thea Flowers of Winterbloom
We couldn’t be happier to welcome Thea to the show. We talk modular synths, pretty circuit boards, importing PCB artwork into KiCad, and python, and who knows what else!
Solder Sesh #43 - Raspberry Pi Pico
Carrie shows the beginnings of Raspberry Pi Pico code for her Making Embedded Systems class final project, using VSCode and Platformio and a 3rd party platform called Wizio.
Solder Sesh #42 - Debra Ansell of Geek Mom Projects
We talk with @GeekMomProjects, designer of the Bright Wearables bag collection, and do a walkthrough tutorial about how to program custom messages and patterns on your Bright bag!
Solder Sesh #41 - Kelly Heaton creator of Circuit Garden
Kelly Heaton joins us and demos her birdsong circuit, we breadboard a section of it with LEDs, talk about her atypical matriculation into MIT, and more!
Solder Sesh #40 - Natasha of TechnoChic
Natasha Dzurney of TechnoChic joins us, we put together her LED bow ties and start adding LEDs to our Open Hardware Summit bag while chatting about her journey through STEM.
Solder Sesh #39 - Breadboarding 555 Timers
We breadboard some 555 timers and counter circuits for an SMT soldering kit currently in development! The IC shortage has forced us to blink LEDs in some old-school ways!
We talk with Lixie Labs about the Pixie Chroma display, what its development was like, and how the Crowd Supply process is going! We also be put together one of their Lixie II kits, which is fun modern spin on a Nixie display.
Solder Sesh #37 - Hannah of Hannah Makes
Hannah creates amazing projects, she mixes electronics with all sorts of objects to make things like teabag-dunking robot arms, light-up dresses, and so much more.
Solder Sesh #36 - Steph Piper of Elkei Education
Steph Piper joins us who is the founder of Elkei Education and makes incredibly beautiful soldering kits in the style of enameled pins. We chat about her kits and path into STEM while soldering one up!
Solder Sesh #35 - Amanda Preske of Circuit Breaker Labs and Because Science
Amanda has a PhD in Chemistry and we talk science & art & her decision to be a small business owner.
Solder Sesh #34 - Sabine/Bleeptrack Creator of the PicoPlanet
Our special guest is Sabine/bleeptrack! We talk about generative art and get our PicoPlanet up and running!
Solder Sesh #33 - Evil Mad Scientist Lab's 555 Timer Kit
We're rolling with the 555 SMT theme this week as we solder up Evil Mad Scientist Lab's cool surface mount 555 timer kit.
Solder Sesh #32 - Evil Genius Labs' Fibonacci Board
Evil Genius Labs' Fibonacci board has been on the to-do list for a while. We up the Arduino IDE, hook up the ESP to the Fibonacci board, maybe do a little level-shifting, it'll be fun!
Solder Sesh #31 - Dave Cox aka Unicycle Dave
Carrie chats with Dave Cox, self taught indestructible pantyhose factory engineer, maker, and one of 3 people to ever unicycle across Canada.
Solder Sesh #30 - Leeborg_ and The Void!
Leeborg_ works on their super cool art project called The Void!
Solder Sesh #29 - David Ray of Cyber City Circuits
We put together Cyber City Circuits' last (sniff!) subscription kit (a solder-it-yourself arduino-compatible business card), and chat about their PCB assembly business.
Solder Sesh #28 - Oskitone Scout with Tommy Marshall
We put together our Oskitone Scout! We've got the parts 3D printed and just have to solder up the board!
Solder Sesh #27 - New Year's Recap!
Happy New Year! We start off 2022 with a recap of all the stuff we soldered up last year, and solder up something new that's quick and easy!
Leeborg_ chats with Alex Leitch, hacker, academic, and software developer as they solder up some blinky boards!
Solder Sesh #24 - Merry Krampus PCB
We do some SMT soldering and assemble one of our new Krampus boards!
Solder Sesh #23 - Making LED Rings with Charlyn Gonda
Solder Sesh #22 - Theremin Kit
We put together the Nano Theremin kit from Cyber City Circuits, and create some wacky noises!
Solder Sesh #21 - HAM Radio with Mark Smith
Time to HAM it up! My friend Mark Smith (@smittyhalibut on twitter) joins us in person and we chat and learn about HAM radio.
We try to reproduce the Alibaba LED Bra using GeekMomProjects' swirly LED strand technique!
Let's put some boards in the oven! We talk you through our stencil and bake assembly process for prototype boards, starring the RBG RGB board!
Solder Sesh #18 - Build a Blob with Debra Ansell
Solder Sesh #17 - Pocket Operators with David
David gives us a basic overview of these cool little calculator-style beat sequencers (it makes bleeps and bloops), and shows us how to get started with making some sweet tunes!
Solder Sesh #16 - Bluetooth Speakers with Bibianna Cha
We solder up and put together a cheap Bluetooth Speaker kit with our friend, Bibianna Cha! She's a biomedical device engineer that has worked on stuff from insulin to eyeballs.
Solder Sesh #15 - PCB Layout using Kicad
We got the ATTiny4 schematic done last week, this week we import graphics and route some traces!
Solder Sesh #14 - RGB RBG Kicad Layout
We work on a new product - an RBG badge that's also an ATTiny4 dev board, we take you through our decisions, what we think makes for a good schematic, and get into some layout too.
Solder Sesh #13 - Troubleshooting Nixie tube voltmeter with Leeborg_
Our very own Leeborg_ live troubleshoots a Nixie tube voltmeter! We see if we can help figure out what's wrong with their cool vintage gear. :)
Solder Sesh #12 - With Lenore Edman
Lenore Edman from Evil Mad Scientist joins us and we talk op amps and put together their giant 741 kit!
Solder Sesh #11 - Tommy Marshall of Oskitone
Tommy from Oskitone joins us and we solder up his APC kit live! And regale you with Poly555 tunes and our very best (worst) piano skills!
Solder Sesh #10 - Completing Projects
We finish up some of our previous livestream projects and troubleshoot the Traffic Lights project.
Solder Sesh #9 - Oscilloscope Kit
We solder up a $20 oscilloscope kit we got off Amazon!
Solder Sesh #8 - The Mystifier with Brent
We Solder up a unique kit called The Mystifier, made by Brent Hauser, it was inspired by an old Eicocraft kit. Brent joins us live in the chat!
Solder Sesh #7 - PS I Hate You SMT Soldering
With our trinocular microscope setup we do some live surface mount soldering of on one of our PS - I Hate You kits.
Solder Sesh #6 - Traffic Light Project
Traffic Lights take 2! We solder in the RF keyfob to make the controller to our Simon Says game wireless.
Solder Sesh #5 - Completing projects and Showing off our Traffic Lights
We work on our Traffic Light Simon game, and try to make the controller wireless!
Sew Sesh #1 - Technochic's Watch Me Sparkle Kit
Carrie adds LED bling to a tote bag, using Technochic's Watch Me Sparkle kit.
Solder Sesh #4 - Cyber City Circuits' Dreamweaver 4N Jr
Solder Sesh #3 - Vintage HP Electronic Counter
Carrie Finishes the Nixie clock kit and shows off a working vintage HP electronic counter with a Nixie tube display!
Solder Sesh #2 - Fibonnaci 32 LED Spiral
We assemble the Fibonacci32 Sprial and chat with Jason Coon of Evil Genius Labs & David Ray of Cyber City Circuits.
Solder Sesh #1 - All About Soldering!
In out first ever livestream we talk all about soldering basics!
Livestream Audio
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Livestream Transcripts
We are no longer doing transcripts for livestreams because it takes too much time for us at the moment. All of the past livestreams we have done transcripts for are on GitHub!