Prelude to disaster
Over the last couple weeks I continued trying to tame my Intel Edison but I must admit that I did go a little too hard on it for is own safety. At first I was going to solder wire directly on the breakout board but when I began thinking about it, I decided to solder a female header instead. I made a little order at the
RobotShop online store for the hardware I needed and after a couple of days I received them. This is when the fun began. I did not have the chance to solder anything for the last 10 years and I was never really good, but I ordered a third hand to help me and this changed my life. For good measure I looked at some video tutorial on
Youtube and made extra caution not to touch any IC on the Edison. At first I was not very good but I soon learned to keep the iron a little longer after I removed the solder wire to let it enter the hole. I did the same for the OLED display I will try to use for my Meteo Notifier V2 project. So with my Edison breakout board ready for some prototyping, I tried my hand on some NodeJS program to control a LED using the blink sample. I played a little bit with it to make some fun and began looking at how to make the display working.
