Life in s0lder land!

It's great! Here are some pics of two conductors with some heat shr!nk over it. Also, a board I started adding conductors to (front and back). Not that it matters much, but he said it was pretty much excellent on my s0lders (one of two in his class he said were kicking @$$). And boy is he @nal. He literally will walk around and say "that is terrible. Do it over". LOL. But he's fun and the class is VERY fun!
Sits nicely on the board and right amount of s0lder, etc. I'm def planning on buying an ir0n of my own (weird how I don't have one already, but we have at work so maybe I've been sort of lazy all this time). The people in the class are fantastic, and the teacher is fantastic. He's already psyched that he has me for three days of the week in Fall.
 It's really a LOT of fun. I can't believe one of the eng!neers told me the class would be boring and to just take d!gital and forget the anal0g stuff, and now I'm taking three anal0g hahaha. This is the foundation in my view; everyone wants to rush to just plug in things into an Arduin0 but fewer really understand how it all works or can modify it if need be (or build from scratch).
Apparently a lot of them (eng!neers in training) find that stuff "boring", but the BEST ones are the ones that know this stuff inside out, because well, that's a real skill and talent and you can make anything. There are people who have everything from an interest in guns, to computer hardware stuff to people who just like building stuff and physicists in the class. It's a really neat group.
Okey doke...

My solder and heat shrink

First solders

 More s0lders before I chop the ends off (ignore that front piece, which was a demo)

 S0lders from the other side of the board (the actual metal part must not be visible at all from this side; the insulated piece must sit on the board)