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Picking the right microcontroller/mini computer for my project
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Youkai:
It wasn't soldering the headers. It was soldering my circuit together on my stripboard. I had three rows with 15 holes each as well as a couple breaks in the strips. Tried to do it using three adjacent strips. Failed twice. First time it didn't work at all. The second time it mostly worked but I had some short somewhere that was causing my pulldown to not work and it left my arduino input floating.

You are right I should try again. The space constraints won't be as tight on this project so I can probably afford to leave a an empty row on the stripboard. I'm sure it was some combination of me being new to soldering (not very skilled), and trying to wire a complex circuit (relative to my skill level).
james_s:
You could also try wire wrapping, it works reasonably well with the square header pins. When I use perfboard I use the stuff that just has holes with pads, no strips connecting anything. I use kynar wire to make the connections.
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