Re:Show HN: I Designed and Built an eBike
by stavros on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:53PM
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Yeah, maybe. I have been spoiled by the TS100/Pinecil, it's the first soldering iron I've owned (besides a $5 trash iron) so I don't know how bad other (otherwise good) irons are.
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Re:Show HN: I Designed and Built an eBike
by irjustin on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:36PM
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I never knew about the Pinecil before this post. Thanks for that.
Personally own the TS100 and absolutely adore it for mostly building keyboards.
Yes you are absolutely spoiled by both of these. Before them were super terrible irons or the expensive brick sized ones with minimal optionality. Having come from the 'dark ages' it's night and day.
Re:Show HN: I Designed and Built an eBike
by johnwalkr on Thursday February 24, 2022 @04:14AM
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I just got a pinecil and it’s great! I have a long workbench and I mostly use the pinecil with a usbc battery because I can put that in my lap and have the power cable totally free from my work.
The debug board, which I don’t have is a great example of using usbc for development and debug (as opposed to test contacts inside the device).
It does need a version 2 though as the tip holders are not great.