Stock Electronic Image FAILS

[Cubdriver]

If you want a 30 minute video of a girl soldering stuff, here you go:

And talking about "sexy female engineers"…

(Warning! Full image size - 3 megabytes).

The full image is even in PNG, for the videofools who can't stand even the slightest of compression artifacts blocking their view.

I wonder if that bikini is ESD safe. Probably doesn't matter considering neither Naomi Wu nor Sarah Petkus need one to maintain their dominance in that area.

I'm sorry - that video title is a lie - that was not relaxing in any way, shape, or form.  My jaw hurts from clenching it while I watched.  Good on her for her interest in electronics, that's awesome, but please, watch those old Pace soldering videos!

-Pat

[Zucca]

I heard statistically girls are better than boys for soldering, due to their gentle touch... 

[maginnovision]

I heard statistically girls are better than boys for soldering, due to their gentle touch... 

I'd hate to see the average guy soldering.

[Cubdriver]

I heard statistically girls are better than boys for soldering, due to their gentle touch... 

The fairer sex is said to have better fine motor skills, so they'd naturally be more adept at detailed work like soldering.  That said, I don't know if she was using crappy solder that didn't have enough flux or the correct flux, had the iron too cool, or what, but it was painful to watch those joints not wetting very well, and the wire lap joints - ai-yi-yi!  I kept thinking "Wipe the iron tip!!!"; it looked pretty crusty through a lot of the video.

-Pat

[Black Phoenix]

Don't Know if it was already published but:

[Lord of nothing]

[kjr18]

Now that's what I call wireless.

[mcinque]

This is coming from a Distrelec newsletter... nice probe!

[Cyberdragon]

I spot several others in that...

what is he doing with that pen? NVM that is the other probe (the wire looks like a pen clip), but it's still not touching or even near anything.

Don't put optical mice on solid color surfaces, it hinders the image sensor causing poor response.

[SiliconWizard]

The fairer sex is said to have better fine motor skills, so they'd naturally be more adept at detailed work like soldering.

Well that's true, but as always, don't mix statistics and individual samples. A given woman may have very poor fine motor skills. Not all are good. Just a numbers problem.

That said, I don't know if she was using crappy solder that didn't have enough flux or the correct flux, had the iron too cool, or what, but it was painful to watch those joints not wetting very well, and the wire lap joints - ai-yi-yi!  I kept thinking "Wipe the iron tip!!!"; it looked pretty crusty through a lot of the video.

To be fair, that's the impression I have when watching many, or maybe even most videos showing people soldering, be it men or women. I don't know if it's just the fact that we're passively watching and thus, more prone to judging, or if it's a fact that actually most people suck at soldering and are much worse at it than they think. I'd tend to think it's the latter.

[edy]

I'm not sure if this was posted before... but I am assuming this person is trying to remove a capacitor, with a smoldering soldering iron. How are you supposed to be accessing the PCB leads/solder itself from this side of the board, under the cap? Don't you usually hit the joint from the back side of the board while you wick and gently pull on the cap from the opposite side?

[SiliconWizard]

Well yeah I'm sure most of those pictures are photomontage.

[amyk]

That picture might make a bit of sense if it was removing a relatively large SMD, where you take a big blob of solder and put it on both pads at once; but those tweezers are not ideal for the task.

[Bud]

And talking about "sexy female engineers"…

Paraphrasing the famous metaphor, Do not be so open so your vagina falls out.

[Cyberdragon]

And talking about "sexy female engineers"…

Paraphrasing the famous metaphor, Do not be so open so your vagina falls out.
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Lots of places stray flecks of moltem solder would love to go. Soldering in shorts is bad enough...

[Gyro]

And talking about "sexy female engineers"…

Paraphrasing the famous metaphor, Do not be so open so your vagina falls out.
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Lots of places stray flecks of moltem solder would love to go. Soldering in shorts is bad enough...

Well as you mentioned it... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49278279?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health&link_location=live-reporting-story   

The woman, who gave permission for her case to be shared, sat over the boiling water for 20 minutes on two consecutive days before presenting at an emergency department with injuries.

[Canis Dirus Leidy]

It's… It's beautiful…



P.S. Source.

[2N3055]

It's… It's beautiful…
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P.S. Source.

Worst part is that if you measure volts, it would measure just fine.  10A shunt in series with 10 MOhms of meter....

[tooki]

Don't put optical mice on solid color surfaces, it hinders the image sensor causing poor response.

Doesn't matter on any halfway decent modern mouse. Heck, Logitech has made mice for years that even work on glass and mirrors.

Modern optical mice are quite high res and basically use the shadows thrown by dust and surface texture to detect movement. And don’t forget that different optical mice use different wavelengths of light sources (some red, some blue, some IR), meaning that a non-solid color surface might be solid in the wavelength in use, even if it’s not to the naked eye!

[bsfeechannel]

She's so smart it hurts.

[NiHaoMike]

This lady knows how to make sparks fly, after a bit of debugging:

[bsfeechannel]

This lady knows how to make sparks fly, after a bit of debugging:

I've been rickrolled, darn it!

[Gyro]

She's so smart it hurts.

Oh yes, she'll go far.

She knows the hot end of a soldering iron, has the basics of ESD (bare arms and no synthetics, as far as I can see) and best of all, even though some sexist **** has stolen her solder, she can still smile about it! 

[Ice-Tea]

And talking about "sexy female engineers"…

Paraphrasing the famous metaphor, Do not be so open so your vagina falls out.
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Lots of places stray flecks of moltem solder would love to go. Soldering in shorts is bad enough...

Soldering in nylon trainers is worse. Trust me.

[McBryce]

Oh yes, she'll go far.

She knows the hot end of a soldering iron, has the basics of ESD (bare arms and no synthetics, as far as I can see) and best of all, even though some sexist **** has stolen her solder, she can still smile about it! 

Not sure about the hanging hair though, she may need to tie it back.

McBryce.