#Reflow oven kit full#

The kit came neatly packed in a sturdy box with everything required except the toaster oven. I will post a few pictures and some video of the final device melting solder paste, though. I’m not going to do a complete, step-by-step documentation of my build the build instructions on the Whizoo site are some of the best kit instructions I’ve used. A little research led me to Whizoo Controleo3 ( ) kit for converting a toaster oven into a very capable reflow oven. After reading about all the challenges of cheap imported ovens, I decided to go the toaster oven route. Obviously, through-hole components are out of the question in this world, so it was time to invest in a reflow oven. And FreeRTOS runs circles around the roll-your-own OS I wrote 40 years ago.

#Reflow oven kit full#

Great stuff! And the development tools! It is pure pleasure to debug with full visibility into the state of both the processor and your code, instead of having your code halt, flash lights, or twiddle pins to try to get an idea of what’s going on.

Now that I’m returning to that world I want the things I had then: multiple processors, interrupts, and a real-time operating system.Įnter 32-bit ARM processors, specifically the STM32 family. Lo these many years ago, the first computer job I got paid for was designing and building a real-time control and data acquisition system it was the most fun I had in my whole career in IT. I’m moving beyond simple circuits with a few passive components to devices with more complex capabilities, and the limits of the Arduino model are becoming very apparent.