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Getting Started in Electronics Repair — A Starter Kit & Buying Guide

People keep asking me what to buy to get into electronics repair as a hobby. Here's everything, collected in one place. This is all hard-learned over ~3 years of hobby work — I'm on my 3rd hot air station and 4th soldering station because I didn't do the research and didn't know what to look for. Don't be me. Buy the nice one up front if you can swing it; the good gear holds its value extremely well anyway.

One channel to watch before you spend a dime: NanoFix on YouTube. He reviews most of the stuff I suggest here (and the alternatives), and his workflow is worth

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Source: "Aurivita Capsaicin Power" direct-response marketing copy

Reproduced verbatim for fact-checking purposes. This is advertising copy for a dietary supplement; it is not medical advice and several of its claims are distorted or unsupported (see the companion analysis). The text cuts off mid-sentence at the end exactly as received.

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When a diabetic man dies, the coroner doesn't write "diabetes" on the death certificate. He writes heart attack. Or stroke. Or kidney failure. Or sepsis from an infected foot. Diabetes is almost never the official cause of death — even though it's almost always the actual one.

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#!/bin/bash

set -e

GIT_DIR=$HOME/projects/private_notes

# only do it if we have network
if ping -c1 -w5 -n 8.8.8.8 | grep -q '1 received'; then

    # first fetch updates

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#!/bin/bash

set -e

GIT_DIR=$HOME/projects/private_notes

# first fetch updates
git -C $GIT_DIR fetch -q origin > /dev/null

if [[ "x$(git -C $GIT_DIR status --porcelain)" == "x" ]]; then

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#!/bin/bash

set -e

GIT_DIR=$HOME/projects/private_notes

git -C $GIT_DIR add -A
git -C $GIT_DIR commit -q -am "update from '$(hostname)' on $(date '+%Y%m%d %H:%M %Z')" > /dev/null || exit 0

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FROM debian:11


RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
    curl jq tzdata coreutils bash git build-essential ca-certificates \
    stress-ng \
    zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libncursesw5-dev libgdbm-dev liblzma-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev uuid-dev libreadline-dev \
    && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# install and set up pyenv

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def default_serialize_func(o):
    """
    Use like this: logging.debug(f"print this object: {json.dumps(myobject, indent=4, sort_keys=True, default=default_serialize_func)}")
    """
    if hasattr(o, '__dict__'):
        return o.__dict__
    return f"<could not serialize {o.__class__}>"

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -ex

SSI_DIR="$HOME/projects/ssi"

"$HOME/bin/bat-status-changed.sh"

source "$SSI_DIR/.ve/bin/activate"

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import io
import json
import random
import sh
import time
import smtplib, ssl

# these are servers that are both close by and in my testing were able to

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Copyright (c) 2017 Cloudera, Inc. All rights reserved.

set -exo pipefail

# Usage: ./docker.sh
# Usage: ./docker.sh test/test.sh
# Usage: INTERACTIVE=1 ./docker.sh

# This script invokes the docker container, does the necessary contortions to