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Step 3Preparing the Wires
You are going to need some wires to connect potentiometers and switches (as well as whatever other sensors you may be interested in) to your board. I always follow some rules that my dad told me already when I was 9 about how to handle wires:
- if you are planning to connect something to a breadboard, use single-core wires, it will make your life so much easier. This type of wire is weaker, you cannot flex it as much as the other, but it sticks to the breadboard. 0.22mm to 0.28mm are the recommended thicknesses
- if you are making a control panel or something where the components will be moving around a lot, but they won't be ever disconnected from your board then use multi-core wire. It will never break (or not in the device's lifetime). Also recommended for more final projects. Again something in the range of 0.2mm is fine
- when using multi-core wires, put some soldering tin on the cable's tip, just to make it easier to solder to a board or component later on
- after that, solder the wire to the different objects
- if you had e.g. a potentiometer, you should first solder the wires on this component and later hook it to the board. As a matter of fact, you should make all the components first, and then solder them to the Smapler all at once
- when soldering on the components, use some "helping hands" or similar to keep the component fixed, this will avoid accidents. In the picture I am reusing an old milk-carton where I punched the potentiometers to solder the wires one by one
- if you are planning to connect something to a breadboard, use single-core wires, it will make your life so much easier. This type of wire is weaker, you cannot flex it as much as the other, but it sticks to the breadboard. 0.22mm to 0.28mm are the recommended thicknesses
- if you are making a control panel or something where the components will be moving around a lot, but they won't be ever disconnected from your board then use multi-core wire. It will never break (or not in the device's lifetime). Also recommended for more final projects. Again something in the range of 0.2mm is fine
- when using multi-core wires, put some soldering tin on the cable's tip, just to make it easier to solder to a board or component later on
- after that, solder the wire to the different objects
- if you had e.g. a potentiometer, you should first solder the wires on this component and later hook it to the board. As a matter of fact, you should make all the components first, and then solder them to the Smapler all at once
- when soldering on the components, use some "helping hands" or similar to keep the component fixed, this will avoid accidents. In the picture I am reusing an old milk-carton where I punched the potentiometers to solder the wires one by one
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