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Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.... by Animats on Saturday May 21, 2022 @04:19PM (#31461416)
nobody else in the hobby scene here had really done anything with it

Sparkfun has tutorials.[1]

There are surface mount practice kits, where you get a little board and a bunch of dud parts to practice on. It's not all that hard, but it takes practice. It takes a while to get skill with tweezers under a microscope. Cheap USB microscopes are very useful. Figure on ruining a few of those cheap practice kits.

It's not rocket science, but to do consistently good assembly you need the right tools and some reasonable hand tool skills.

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/category/2

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Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.... by Sirened on Saturday May 21, 2022 @04:26PM (#31461480)
Ah, no, I was more referencing my local community. We have a fairly vibrant electronics DIY community but the technical skill caps out at around SMD stuff. Thankfully though while the community is largely stuck in the 70s, we aren't actually stuck in the 70s and have the internet to try and figure things out.
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Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.... by Animats on Saturday May 21, 2022 @05:32PM (#31462069)
We have a fairly vibrant electronics DIY community but the technical skill caps out at around SMD stuff.

I had that experience in the heyday of TechShop. Which I felt was embarrassing for Silicon Valley. Not enough people making stuff.

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