About This Class
Soldering Basics
Instructor: Diane "Dr Hotsauce" Hoffoss
We'll teach you the purpose of all the soldering equipment and give basic soldering instruction. You'll get lots of hands-on practice with a variety of soldering techniques, and will end the class making your own LED pendant.
Course Schedule:
Demonstration (30 mins): We'll begin with an introduction to the equipment and their purposes and discuss safety concerns. We'll then demonstrate good soldering technique, and also some examples of poor soldering technique, with an indication of how to tell if your soldering joint is good.
Hands-on Practice (30 mins): After the demonstration, you'll settle in to a soldering station outside, and practice doing some soldering joints of your own, including both through-hole and surface mount practice. We will be there to coach you, check your work, and help you troubleshoot.
Final project (1 hour 30 mins): When you have some confidence with your technique, you can use your newfound knowledge to create an LED pendant to take home with you!
Skills instilled:
Students will feel confident using a soldering iron to start making their own projects.
Students should bring:
If you have your own soldering iron, you should bring it, so that you become familiar with your own equipment. We will have irons available for use for students who don't have their own.
Prerequisites:
None.
Cost:
$20 will cover the use of all materials and soldering equipment needed for the course, plus the materials and LEDs for the final pendant.
Class Attendance:
Space and availablity in our classes are extremely limited so we ask that attendees please respect our instructors and others in the community:
- Please show up promptly at the start of the class.
- We understand that things happen but out of repect for others and our instructors:
- Those arriving more than 20 minutes late to a class may not be allowed entry. There are no refunds in this case.
- Please let us know if you are unable to attend ASAP so we can open your spot to someone else wanting to attend the class. Refund policy is listed below.
Refund policy:
We purchase materials in advance of each of our classes, and thus, we've updated our refund policy as follows:
- Cancellation up to 7 days before the event: 100% refund, excluding QGiv fees.
- Cancellation between 3 and 7 days before the event: 50% refund, excluding QGiv fees.
- Less than 3 days before the event: 0% refund.
You can choose to have your refund returned to you by 1) your original payment method, or 2) refund applied to a QGiv credit that you can use for a reiteration of this class or another class entirely.
No Show Policy:
CoLab offers classes at little to no cost to the community. Space is extremely limited and demand is high. If you register for this class, please make absolutely sure you can attend otherwise you will be taking a valuable spot from someone else and de-valuing our instructor's time (who donate their time to CoLab!). Because of this, we must insist that if you sign up and find that you can not make it, you must communicate that to us ASAP so we can fill your spot with someone else that can make it.
Simply email us at info@sdcolab.org. We get it, life happens but please consider others in these situations. Repeated violators will be asked to seek art instruction elsewhere.
About Diane Hoffoss
Diane is CoLab’s Education Lead, Electronics Lab Lead, and one of CoLab’s Directors. She has been lighting artist and/or lead artist for 10+ large-scale art installations for Burning Man and city parks since 2017, and is a co-founder of the artist collective ArtBuilds. The most exhausted she’s ever been was when leading her Burning Man (2018, 2023) installation called Unfolding Humanity, which required welding, CNC routing, laser cutting and engraving, mirror water jetting, soldering, and power routing and programming for over 16,000 LEDs!
Visit Diane’s webpage to check out her art. dianehoffoss.com
Find us on the Web
Colab is run on donations and grants. If you would like to donate, please visit our donation page: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/sdcapcolabevents/donations/
About This Class
Soldering Basics
Instructor: Diane "Dr Hotsauce" Hoffoss
We'll teach you the purpose of all the soldering equipment and give basic soldering instruction. You'll get lots of hands-on practice with a variety of soldering techniques, and will end the class making your own LED pendant.
Course Schedule:
Demonstration (30 mins): We'll begin with an introduction to the equipment and their purposes and discuss safety concerns. We'll then demonstrate good soldering technique, and also some examples of poor soldering technique, with an indication of how to tell if your soldering joint is good.
Hands-on Practice (30 mins): After the demonstration, you'll settle in to a soldering station outside, and practice doing some soldering joints of your own, including both through-hole and surface mount practice. We will be there to coach you, check your work, and help you troubleshoot.
Final project (1 hour 30 mins): When you have some confidence with your technique, you can use your newfound knowledge to create an LED pendant to take home with you!
Skills instilled:
Students will feel confident using a soldering iron to start making their own projects.
Students should bring:
If you have your own soldering iron, you should bring it, so that you become familiar with your own equipment. We will have irons available for use for students who don't have their own.
Prerequisites:
None.
Cost:
$20 will cover the use of all materials and soldering equipment needed for the course, plus the materials and LEDs for the final pendant.
Class Attendance:
Space and availablity in our classes are extremely limited so we ask that attendees please respect our instructors and others in the community:
- Please show up promptly at the start of the class.
- We understand that things happen but out of repect for others and our instructors:
- Those arriving more than 20 minutes late to a class may not be allowed entry. There are no refunds in this case.
- Please let us know if you are unable to attend ASAP so we can open your spot to someone else wanting to attend the class. Refund policy is listed below.
Refund policy:
We purchase materials in advance of each of our classes, and thus, we've updated our refund policy as follows:
- Cancellation up to 7 days before the event: 100% refund, excluding QGiv fees.
- Cancellation between 3 and 7 days before the event: 50% refund, excluding QGiv fees.
- Less than 3 days before the event: 0% refund.
You can choose to have your refund returned to you by 1) your original payment method, or 2) refund applied to a QGiv credit that you can use for a reiteration of this class or another class entirely.
No Show Policy:
CoLab offers classes at little to no cost to the community. Space is extremely limited and demand is high. If you register for this class, please make absolutely sure you can attend otherwise you will be taking a valuable spot from someone else and de-valuing our instructor's time (who donate their time to CoLab!). Because of this, we must insist that if you sign up and find that you can not make it, you must communicate that to us ASAP so we can fill your spot with someone else that can make it.
Simply email us at info@sdcolab.org. We get it, life happens but please consider others in these situations. Repeated violators will be asked to seek art instruction elsewhere.
About Diane Hoffoss
Diane is CoLab’s Education Lead, Electronics Lab Lead, and one of CoLab’s Directors. She has been lighting artist and/or lead artist for 10+ large-scale art installations for Burning Man and city parks since 2017, and is a co-founder of the artist collective ArtBuilds. The most exhausted she’s ever been was when leading her Burning Man (2018, 2023) installation called Unfolding Humanity, which required welding, CNC routing, laser cutting and engraving, mirror water jetting, soldering, and power routing and programming for over 16,000 LEDs!
Visit Diane’s webpage to check out her art. dianehoffoss.com
Find us on the Web
Colab is run on donations and grants. If you would like to donate, please visit our donation page: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/sdcapcolabevents/donations/