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This award-winning soldering iron’s smoke purifying design is the modern avatar of this age-old tool!

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For DIY welding aficionados, the details are key with soldering tools. The welder has to be an appropriate size, the time it takes for the iron to heat up could make or break the experience, and the amount of heat generated has to make sense for each job. That’s why Red Dot gave their 2020 Design Award to an electric soldering iron with smoke purification capabilities – it managed to check all the boxes.

The lead designer behind this safety welder, Wang Guoqiang, implemented a built-in air purifier in order to filter toxic fumes that are inevitably inhaled when using other soldering tools on the market. The main body of the tool is comprised of an internal purification system that incorporates an exhaust and suction mechanism in order to filter harmful fumes that come from soldering. At the head of the tool, a tube of glass contains the flow of heat and air so burns that could result from touching hot, exposed iron are entirely avoided. The electric soldering iron works on built-in, rechargeable, lithium batteries so that it functions wirelessly and you don’t have to worry about messy wires while you’re getting a job done. This electric soldering iron with smoke purification features is the size of a pen for easy clean-up and storage, making it the perfect portable or household tool.

Designer: Wang Guoqiang x Ningbo Fonu

My Little Pony Soldering Iron: Friendship Is 3rd-degree Burns

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Are you a brony who also loves electronics projects? Well, we’ve got some good news for you. You can make your own My Little Pony soldering iron, which makes the ponies more like unicorns. Because friendship is magic. Hot, flesh, searing magic.

If you want to know how to make one of these cute but dangerous hybrids, check out Barb Noren’s YouTube video. She shows you how to mod My Little Pony toys with soldering irons inside. You know, just what all of the kids want for Christmas this year. It doesn’t look too complicated and they say that this can be done by anyone “with even the most basic soldering and rotary tooling skills.”

I also wonder how easy this will be to work with, because you know, it’s got a pony on the end. I’m gonna call mine Rainbow Dash to the Hospital.

Anyway, check out the video if you want to make your own. I’d like to see them fight each other with their own hot unicorn horns until it’s an arena of rainbow-colored burnt plastic. So I better get to work. See you guys later.

[via Boing Boing via Geekologie]

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Makerarm Industrial Robotic Arm: One Stop & One Armed Shop

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Last month we featured the Dobot, a precise robotic arm that can plot, laser engrave and pick and place objects. But if you’re looking for something even more versatile, the Makerarm might be for you. It can also draw, use a laser head and assemble objects, but you can also use it as a 3D printer, a PCB fabricator, a soldering station and even a screwdriver.

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As you may have guessed the Makerarm has a modular tooling system that lets it transform from one type of machine to another.

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Its arm can rotate up to 180º and its reach is 15.7″ long, 31.4″ wide and 10″ high. You can also make two Makerarm units to work as one.

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Pledge at least $1399 (USD) on Kickstarter to receive a Makerarm, a universal tool head, a pen plotter, an electromagnetic pick & place head plus one more tool head of your choice as a reward.

[via GeekDad]

USB Rechargeable Soldering Iron: Solderdoodle Pro

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You can already get battery-powered soldering irons, as well as ones that are powered via USB. But for some reason there doesn’t seem to be a soldering iron with a built-in battery that’s also rechargeable via USB. Thanks to Isaac Porras you can now make such a device. Or at least help him mass produce it.

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Isaac’s Solderdoodle Pro prototype is based on the heating element of a Weller BP645 soldering iron, along with a 3350mAh Li-ion battery and a charging circuit, all crammed into a 3D printed case. Isaac says the Solderdoodle Pro can get to 700ºF in 30 seconds, and stay there for over an hour before the battery needs to be recharged. Needless to say it’s not advisable to keep it that hot for that long; it’s just Isaac’s way of testing the Solderdoodle Pro’s battery life.

Pledge at least $39 (USD) on Kickstarter to get a Solderdoodle Pro as a reward. You can also hack one yourself using Isaac’s guide on Instructables.

[via Gadgetify]