The Basic Tools for Tinkering
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- Ben shows you all the must-have tools you need in your toolbox to start modding, hacking, and building projects. These include your soldering iron, pliers, drills and of course your hands!
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His list was:
1) Soldering iron
2) Desoldering iron and braid
3) Tweezers
4) Craft knife
5) Diagonal cutters
6) Pliers, wide and needlenose
7) Battery-powered drill
8) Helping hands
9) Screwdriver set, especially Phillips
10) Wire strippers
11) Phillips breadboards
12) Multimeter w/ contunity and resistance
13) Prying tool, AKA flathead screwdriver
14) Liquid super glue
15) Hot glue gun
the greatest results that I have ever had was with the Gregs Electro Blog (i found it on google) definately the most incredible info that I've followed.
You are just the right level of weird + informational for my taste. This is my first time seeing any of your videos, but I am definitely going to watch more.
Ben you NEED to make a starter kit on element 14 for people to buy! PLEASE!
cracks me up that every tool is most useful. Great list of inexpensive beginning tools. Thank you
I seriously needed this video and I love your tip videos. Thanks for getting me started on modding Ben! :)
Getting started with this stuff with no background in it is tough lol. I'm glad this show exists for beginners like myself :D Thanks Ben Heck and rev3
I'd love to see what you could do with a Nerf Blaster, Ben. Especially the eletronic, motor driven.
For you that are new to electronics; is to start out building up some in expensive little electronic kits. I find Velleman brand good. I got a sound to light kit for 5$. It has twenty nine components all the basic through hole parts led, resistor, 4 transistors, a cap, volume control and a microphone, 9volt battery holder. Each part is marked on the little board so it will be hard to get mixed up. I am 72 years old and I found it fun to put together and it works.
So many most useful tools.
This is great thanks. I've still to browse through the rest of your videos but a video on soldering tips and techniques showing close ups would be great - I've never really done any proper soldering but am really interested in starting some small projects - I've got a Meggy RGB JR and daren't touch it at the minute!!!
Thanks Ben your awesome
very helpful video...
any advice on learning to solder?....i wanna recap my gamegear but have never soldered before
that is one of the coolest (and longest) intros ever :D
Ben eres lo mejor un fuerte abrazo y sigue asi...se te kiere..saludos desde mexico. San.luis potosi.
Ive been watching the BHS for awhile, less nite that i don't use ios as much as i used to. Yesterday I'm proud to say i ordered a raspberry pi to make a small Mame machine. Thanks Ben for all the how to videos!
Awesommeee videoo Ben!!!!
That would be neat to see. Ive tried to build that circuit but don't think I wired the cube together right. When i tested the different layers the bottom layer only one led will light up when I use the continuity/diode tester of my muiltimeter. But the other two layers all leds light up. When I had the layers separated they all lit up.
My first real circuit was a 555 timer. I was so happy when I finished it. I would recommend that to anyone starting out with circuits so they can see resistors, capacitors, LED's, possibly tranaistors, and IC's so they can get used to seeing them in schematics.
Note: do not use metal screw drivers on your dashboard. It's an easy way to damage it. Some proper plastic trim removers are better for this task :)
Hey Ben. A good reference is Make Magazine Tool Guide edition. It breaks down tools that you definetely must have, all the way to tools that makes your life easier but you can live without.
Also, dont ever use your teeth to strip wires. Teeth are strongest on vertical force (ie. chewing). When you strip, you applying horizontal force to your teeth and sooner or later will break , even if you do have good oral hygene.
LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!
the bag is back yes i was waiting for it to be back
Yes please more beginner stuff PLEASEEEEE... Thanks man :-)
Ben you should have Unior tools. One of the best tools there are and some arent very expensive.
spring clips in all sizes are great to have around. they are cheap and come in many sizes and Strengths. spring clips have saved my bacon many times.
Which programms are you using to plan your projects?
the best tools i have are the ones i haven't brought
great vid Ben
thanks for the tip of combining smd on a breadboard
thanks
Ben, the exactor knife is from x-clite
what temperature do you set your soldering iron to? thanks
7:55 I have that same screwdriver, it is great.
Who can't do all this awesome stuff
Tools are fun to use on project...
Please let this be a first episode to a tutorial on how to get started on modding/hacking
I love you Ben
I wish I saw your other video before 86ing my old monitors, I could have done the same cabinet with my old NES and Sega Genesis. But the tool video was cool, cause I have everything but a functional drill, lol.
How do you keep your workshop clean?
What's a decent soldering iron for less than £25? It will be my first soldering iron I've bought for myself and I just want something to get started.
How about using a DIP socket for the chip? The 4000 series chips are very static sensitive, and using a socket also makes replacement easier (which is needed more often than you would think).
How many watt your is soldering iron?
Hot glue is fairly easy to pry off most things with a pair of pliers, and in a pinch you can heat it back so it becomes a fluid again.
Thanks Ben! You reminded me to buy more 10k resistors! lol.. I'm really short on them.. Though, i have pretty much all other values! o_o
Good lighting is underrated.
Hey Ben where do i get some of that white flat hook up cable you use in all your projects The wire that is configured like a ribbon cable? Could you post me a link where i could buy some of that?
www.newark.com/3m/3365-34/ribbon-cable-34-conductor-100ft/dp/03F5910
Could you dodder your own computer together and how long would it take.
Will you ever do the AMD computer you showed last week?
What about your surface on your working bench?
hey ben i was wondering where you got your de-soldering iron from
thanks in advance
joe
Element 14
He got it from element14
I mostly use breadboards and hammers.
Can u make a video on how to track pin outs of a circuit board
I really like ur channel man gona sub is
I am certain that the Aoyue & Hakko is a good iron but what of the tip? The real reason that Weller soldering irons work so well is because of the tips they use. The Weller iron clad tips are the best in my 40 years of electronics experience.BTW, always clean the tip before soldering, then lightly tin the tip with solder. That helps transfer the heat quickly to the work.
Ben please help I have a mini pcs screen from a slicK 12.0megapixel camera I can power it up but I can't find the video pinout
Another good way to remove the copper pads from the board is to solder just the tip of one of those component leads you collect (I have been doing this for years now!) on the pad you want to remove. Then you just push the lead and the pad comes right off!
Hey Ben, Can you build an emulation console?
Whatever multimeter you get try and find one that measure A.C. volts in RMS and not Peak voltage. RMS or Root Mean Squared is .707 of Peak voltage. The A.C. voltage out of the wall is 110 VAC RMS. Another tip is to try and find a meter with at least a 20 Mega Ohm input impedance. The higher the better. This means that the Multimeter will not change the electrical properties of the circuit you are testing.
Ben Heck takes 12 minutes to explain how awesome a screwdriver is.
Radio Shack has some very cheap ones. I just recently got a new 40w one from there and it works well. DON'T go for the cheapest one with low wattage. I found this the hard way, it's much harder to solder with an iron that doesn't get hot enough. Just don't expect it to last long, and also, the Radio Shack irons have a different tip size than most irons. Replacement tips will not fit. The plus side is that they're only maybe $20USD so you can just get another if it breaks.
ya that is a good way to get LEDs but so are old toys with lights or you could go to a local area electronic shop in my area we have Orion and Sayal
I'm curious on the super glue. Why liquid and not gel?
Gel super glue does not seep into cracks. A bonus for some people... a negative for me.
really nice show, Im 30 and im trying to learn electronics wish the internet had existed when I was a kid. But I guess most of them nowadays think internet is facebook, online games and cats.
hey ben!what about some arduino home automation projects?or something cool that involves arduino?like so ben can see
can u do a vid on radio waves like a simple RC plane
I could see this show being on TV
Love my Dremel type tool or the much better fancy German Proxxon professional rotary tool which is quieter and much better made, worth the extra cost.
every tool is the most useful tool
Me too
Where can I purchase some good quality hands?
yay
hey i'm just wondering what did ben study ?????
I would love to see him make a laptop with high end desktop parts. I think it would be a cool build
I i I didn't know there were so many most usefull tools.
When you are going to solder? What's your favorite protype board? Because you can choose lots of them at element14. :0
ben cud you make an andoid tablet
I would be interested to see you rank your "most useful tool" list because there were a few things you gave that title to.
Ben could u make a raspberry pi appliance using a windows surface keyboard and a touch
screen.
Wow..I didn't even know they sold desolder irons, I've always just used solder wick's
11:48 sounds like me for sure. :-)
Everything seems useful to him.
Lets all have a moment for the handless
SO MUCH MONEY IS PUT IN TO THIS, LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE!!
everything is usefull...
Ben heck could you make a 3 by 3 by 3 LED cube using the 555 timer IC and the 4020 IC. I tried but my 4020 IC keeps getting fried and I and probably some others would like an expert tutorial on it. The 3 by 3 by 3 cube is simple but hard because the 4020 IC is very sensitive so its hard sometimes to not fry it.
Vote up so Ben could see plz.
Ben must have been busy this week.
BTW, if you can only have 2 types of resistor, buy 1K and 10K.
it doesnt but its one of the best ways to keep things stable unless theres another way thats just as easy
BEN HELP! I just got rid f U - Verse, recently but still have the Belkin Residential Gateway (RG) UPS Unit. I want to make the input power a solar panel and the output a power strip so I can have a little off grid power station essentially. There is an inverter, bater, and control unit built into the unit and you can easily find the PDF For specifications. I would love to make this happen with your help man!
Vote Up Please! BEN HECK HELP!
if you want to watch the show on saturday go to element14
Ben, with regards to your 'and now a message from our sponsor' moment, put some panyhose on the end of your shop vac to make it simpler to find that part.
i guess you can do it that way, but id rather have a good strong connection rather than have to redo something occasionally...theres other uses for hot glue too
Phillips head screw driver
Make an ouya portable in a Wii u type case
what if I dont have hands?
do you know in which country was 3D printing invented?
good tip I have for finding tools is look at yard sales flea markets and pawn shops.
that is if your broke like me lol
How did you click on this video?
Try asking him over element14!
My illustrious workshop where I keep my tools...coffee table.
Man im late this vid is 6years old hahaha🤣
i expected the car to be teched up! lol