Uncle Matt, a wild-haired maker wearing round welding goggles Uncle Matt makes
Bench notes

From the bench

A small hand-soldered green protoboard sits on a blue silicone soldering mat. A black 3-pin connector with red, white, and black wires is soldered to one end, feeding an addressable LED strip, with a separate red-and-black power lead. Around it are spools of green and yellow hookup wire, flush cutters, and pliers.
My first soldering outside a hobby kit: no instructions, just an idea and a connector that needed to be on this board. A few of the joints are ugly. They all held when I tugged on them.
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