PINECIL – Smart Mini Portable Soldering Iron, New Version 2

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Needless to say, we hope that the PineBuds will see the same level of success as the PineTime and the Pinecil have enjoyed. But for about 95 percent of my projects, I prefer the Pinecil, and my Hakko has now been respectfully retired to my local community space for communal use. I put the Pinecil through its paces, and and although the device is fully open source, give it a teardown for good measure. GPIO is broken out on USB-C for creating your own projects, same pinout as Pinecil V1, same great feel, including the rubber grip, works with all existing tips, same DC input + USB-C input connections, and compatibility with existing clear or black handles.

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In stepped Pine64, mostly known for its range of Raspberry Pi alternative single board computers, Linux powered phones and Arm laptops, with its Pinecil temperature controlled soldering iron. Do not try to bend the two internal contacts, they are made of a thin stiff spring metal and could break (not soft copper), but you could wipe them with IPA (including the small PCB pad below the contacts).If the AliExpress seller tries to show "CE certification" documents as some type of proof, those are all copied public info from this Wiki page in the Certifications section. I choose Pinecil because it has 3 ways to power on USB-C PD65w 20V, DC barrel up to 24V/3amps+, and DC barrel with any of my tool batteries (18V-21). Sadly, I’m far worse at Riddles than the great Lukasz, so to cut to the chase, today we are announcing the follow up version two, which is more of an evolution than a revolution. I got into the rhythm of taking the station out, putting down a project mat, and setting everything up.

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Go to the Pinecil Power Supplies article for details on how to select a charger, hook up a battery, and a list of compatible power supplies and cables. I personally tested this it works on Apple 140W 28V charger and other members have Anker 717, anker 737 (28V battery bank), and several other EPR PD 3. The Pinecil (V2) is a smart mini portable soldering iron with a 32-bit RISC-V SoC featuring a sleek design, auto standby and it heats up to an operating temperature in just 4 seconds with sufficiently powerful PSU!IronOS also runs on several similar inexpensive soldering irons, like these popular ones from MiniWare.

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We also discuss Quartz64’s development progress, the PineBuds and receive an update on PineTime and InfiniTime from JF. We’ve also tweaked the display settings and gamma to improve the color displayed by the LCD, improved the Timer app interface, and reduced the time needed for the watch to go to sleep.Both provide enough thermal mass to make contact with the component and PCB, but the chisel affords a little more precision.