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A soldering iron is a hand tool used in soldering. It supplies heat to melt solder so that it can flow into the joint between parts and a circuit board. A soldering iron is composed of a heated metal tip and an insulated handle.

A ShopBot is an amazing do-all tool for precisely cutting, carving, drilling or machining all kinds of things from all kinds of materials. With a ShopBot, you use the included software to design your parts on your personal computer, then, like a robot, the computer controls the cutter to precisely cut your parts.

A printer attached to a computer, that can make a solid object from a digital model by printing many separate layers of the object

Joining together metal pieces or parts by heating the surfaces to the point of melting them using a blowtorch, electric arc, or other means.

Laser cutting is a precise method of cutting a design using a computer file to guide it.

We use CorelDraw to create the file to cut. The Laser cutter will also accept other drawings like a PDF or Adobe file.

Arduino is a small micro controller and the software used to program it. Arduino is designed to make electronics more accessible to artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.