[Electronics-Talk] Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, March 12, 2020 - Volume 746

[Steve Jacobson]

Hi,

Even the old Braille Technical Press had some articles about soldering.  However, I was glad to see this current effort because the publications mentioned really spoke to a previous generation of blind people of which some of us were members.  I did some soldering and generally succeeded where I needed to, but circuits today are very different and require much finer control.  I hope that someone writes up some of the findings and recommendations of these workshops and have expressed that hope to people involved.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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There was a publication, back in the 70's called the Braille Technical File, that had a series of detailed articles on how a blind person could solder. It was a great publication, and it may have been put on-line -- I can't remember.

Dave



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Many years ago I read an article in New Beacon Magazine called Wiring By Hand and it gives a useable technique for blind people to do soldering used as far back as World War II.

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