The soldering workshop this year was for Open Source Hardware Universal Remote Control board using SMT components.
All files for this kit are at GitHub including hardware, software sources and Assembly instructions. For these who didn’t manage to participate, now the kit is on our web for sale: URC
This year we had massive participation of kids from 4 to 12 years old.
As the SMT components are bit odd to solder we prepared for them FOSDEM-85 kits with PTH components.
We were a bit concerned if they will not get burned by the soldering irons, but they surprised us as they were so precise and careful that all boards they soldered worked 100% from the very first time.
Just for comparison when we do soldering workshops with adults from 20 up to 70 years old about 10% of the soldered boards do not start due to problems with misplaced components or bad soldering and we have to help them to fix. So it appears kids do solder better than adults 🙂
The Minibot kits from TuxCon 2018 soldering workshop are also on the web now.
It was wonderful weekend with lot of fun.
olimex 
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