Yeah, noticed that it didn't have the best reviews. Some on Amazon with good reviews and solder suckers for slightly more. Just looked and the one I have is only 25W.

You can if your other half will let you. Need a nice flat bit of steel to put on the hob though to ensure even heating of your board (hobs normally have ridges)

I've not tried it myself, but looks interesting - you apply solder paste to the board and line up your components as best you can and then let heat and surface tension do the rest :-D

Sounds like fun. I don't think I could do it on my gas hob without a plate to sit it on :) I think I could have some fun with this stuff if I had any idea what I was doing. Really want an Arduino but no idea what I would do with it.

Get one and selection of components and follow some beginner tutorials. Once you get an idea of what sort of things you can do you'll start thinking of projects.

Do it:
http://kawalabo.blogspot.jp/2014/01/myra-intelligent-robotic-lighting.html?m=1

I think I will at some point. Would like yo have a play with one and see what it can do.

As we were talking about soldering irons this morning by brother in law text me to ask if I have a soldering iron. Made me giggle.

It's like Pixar!  I wish it didn't make such a racket.  Could you imagine the bitching you'd hear if you woke up to take a piss in the middle of the night?  The whole house would be up because my dog would freak the fuck out and bark at it.

:-D

It is interesting, but all I see are the feds hacking in and watching your every move!

At least you'd know about it. I mean it'd certainly throw some light on the situation.

Would you? The light would just follow you around as normal, and the feds would just watch through whatever that funky interface is.

Well the two with USB and soldered pins /finally/ arrived today. Just need to think of some other things to do.

Chinese New Year slowing things down?

No idea because I ordered other things at the same time that arrived a couple of weeks ago. Also ordered things since that arrived last week.

Considering the nomination.....

:')

Oohh, nice. I like that. How easy is that to setup and how accurately does it work?

It's not too bad but there's often some funny interpretations.

So is that with a controlled switch or a relay?  Nice job!

Should have posted in this thread too -

Voice to Google search
AutoVoice detects key phrases and speaks to Tasker
Tasker does a HTTP Get command to my web server
Web server issues light on command to Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi issues light on command to Arduino
Arduino sends light on signal to LightwaveRF switch

So it's a controlled switch.