Each time you lose the game the soldering iron tip temperature increases by 10 degrees. Yikes!
Surprised there is no 'don't burn yourself' disclaimer
No worries, I'm sure that come with the box.
Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
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Re: Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That doesn't come from USB. No, it comes from the 12-24V power supply you plug into the back of it. It's a ~65W iron. No apologies for sounding snotty here. You don't know what it is, haven't seen one, haven't used one but you're already ready to crap all over it. Try one. It's full of silly novelties that I'm sure you'll hate but it doesn't take much to improve the usability of a dumb thermocontrolled soldering st…
Fair point about the power. Retracted. Reading reviews, the handle is slippery, a lot of them arrive with defective temperature control, the tip isn't grounded with Y2 leakage from mains on it. Its still junk.
I've had no issue with temperature or the handling. It's near-impossible for either of us to quantitatively assess how frequent these issues are so I won't dispute whether or not you've seen a "lot" of complaints.
The power supply is junk. A nasty, unearthed, noisy switch-mode PSU, like every other low-output, low-cost PSU out there. There is a grounding pin on the iron itself but it's not ideal to rely on.
But many remedies do exist. I suspect you have a grounded, linear bench power supply right next to your existing soldering station. That'll do. Even a cheap earthed PSU would do better. And many people use battery packs to great effect.
Re: Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
#33Re: Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
#34> STM32F103T8U6 (ARM Cortex M3, clock frequency 72 MHz) That's one powerful chip for a soldering iron.
It has a Slow Down and Almost Catch Fire instruction.
Re: Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
#35The question we should be asking as more ubiquitous devices are built with comparatively large amounts of computational power is not what will run tetris, but what won't run tetris?
Re: Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
#36The question we should be asking as more ubiquitous devices are built with comparatively large amounts of computational power is not what will run tetris, but what won't run tetris?
Tetris is a good start, but someone needs to port Doom to it next.
Re: Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair point about the power. Retracted. Reading reviews, the handle is slippery, a lot of them arrive with defective temperature control, the tip isn't grounded with Y2 leakage from mains on it. Its still junk.
I've had no issue with temperature or the handling. It's near-impossible for either of us to quantitatively assess how frequent these issues are so I won't dispute whether or not you've seen a "lot" of complaints. The power supply is junk. A nasty, unearthed, noisy switch-mode PSU, like every other low-output, low-cost PSU out there. There is a grounding pin on the iron itself but it's not ideal to rely on. But many…
i use mine the field to perform repairs on my racing drone. it is 100x's better than any normal soldering iron in this situation because i can 1) fit it in my bag at about the size of a pencil 2) power it off an existing lipo i already have with me.
the best camera is the one that you have with you. same goes for irons. how this dweeb can rate something as junk without having ever used it is beyond me. i've been pleasantly surprised at how capable it is ever since purchase.
Re: Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
#38For what it's worth, I somewhat hesitantly bought one of these soldering irons a few months ago off Ali Express. After having used it a lot since then I can now highly recommend it as a fantastic bit of kit - I've almost become emotionally attached to the thing! It heats up quickly, holds a consistent temperature, solders very well, plus has lots of features and configuration options. For example it can be set to coo…
I really don't understand how that can actually be a good iron in any way, shape or form. I've been doing hobby and production soldering for about 25 years. What you need is an iron that will stay at 700oF whatever you throw at it tip or workpiece related. That means power, lots of it. That doesn't come from USB. Considering my current iron is a 50W Weller TCP, that can switch between soldering 0805 packages immediat…
Probably better than the cheap Radio Shack iron I've used to do all my projects.
Re: Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
#39Very cool :) Is the STM32F103T8U6 chip, also regulating the temperature of the iron via a PID algorithm or.., or is that handled elsewhere?
Edit:
Looks like the PID algorithm, is here:
https://github.com/joric/ts100tris/blob/master/S100App/Src/C...
Nice!
Re: Tetris for TS100 soldering iron
#40While I greatly approve of this implementation, I'd also like to see doom tried out, or maybe hatris(1) for faster warmup times :)