Sniff

We decide that the V2 mp3 player means too much trouble for the new rounds of prototypes. This is me soldering a Wave Shield from Adafruit Industries. This is the component that Tom Igoe told us about back in our PhysCom workshop, he knows the woman who has developed it, and now it is finally here. We simply cannot resist to try if this works out better than the mp3, at least it should be a lot easier because this is tailor made for Arduino, and there is a lot of experience out there to learn from when encountering trouble of any kind. The step-by-step soldering tutorial is a dream, it’s so thorough you don’t have to know anything about electronics to manage to assemble it. I am very careful though, well aware of that if I make a mistake I’ll probably never find out exactly what. Soldering this type of board is fun, every little hole has a metal ring in it, and the result is that the solder melts down in the right spot beautifully. And when the result is that it works exactly like it is supposed to, I’m almost about to order more kits of different type just for the fun of it.