Re: USB on a breadboard?


brehob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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I also think that your idea about some soldering experience has merit.
I believe that being able to perform some basic board rework is a
valuable skill for both engineers and technicians. A course that
provides IPC certification takes about two days so it should be
possible to cover a fair amount of technique in a few class or lab
sessions.
IPC?
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Mark

Here is a link to the web page for the small company that I received my
SMT training from: www.smt-network.com. Their web page has a link to
soldering training which should give you an idea of how they organize
their classes and what they cover. At the very least, it may give you
an idea or two. One idea that comes to mind is that perhaps you could
get certified as a trainer, which costs more money, and then your
students could become certified as part of the course. I really don't
know how important the certification is to many companies. Where I
work, the best thing that it did for me is give me justifiable grounds
(as in yes, I know what I am talking about) when I declared that some
work from an intercompany vendor was unacceptible.

I am not certain what IPC stands for, but I believe that they are the
organization that sets the standards for many aspects of the assembly
process.

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