ShiftPlusOne wrote:For the folks struggling with soldering, I recommend EEVBlog's tutorials on the matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYz5nIHH0iY

Thanks, will definitely check this when I'm at home

I've had some bad soldering experiences, every time I needed to solder something it turned out badly. I recently bought a temperature controlled Soldering Iron and my soldering is so much better, having a good Iron makes a big difference. I bought this one http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41V%...

joan wrote:You made a far better job of soldering to P5 than I did. Mine is a right mess, but it does work.

It should work, but I have a few tips. You have large blobs of solder and it's not even covering the pads. Look at the header next to it for comparison - much less solder and making full contact. When you solder, hold the iron so that it touches the pad and the pin at the same time, then hold the s...

Hi, I want to add a HifiBerry Digi to my Pi, but the P5-header wasn't already in place. I'm not very experienced in soldering such relatively tiny components (only hardwired loudspeaker crossovers), so I'm not sure if everything is o.k. now. I attached a picture of my result, does that seem o.k.? I ...