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Portable iron V3
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Portable soldering iron V3

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Finally, the board works perfect. So I could make a 3D design for the case and this is a final product that could end up on Kickstarter. It is a very cheap project, around 15$ for all the parts . On this tutorial you willhave a full part list, the schematic and layout of the board in case you want to amke it. I also share the 3D STL files for the case so you could print it.



See components we need here:






PART 1 - Schematic


Below we have the schematic for this board. To supply it we use a type mini B USB connector. That is connected to the power MOSFET but also to some pads for the buck converter so we could get 5V for the other microchips. Now the 16Mhz crystal is smaller so we have more space on the PCB for future improvements. See version 2 to see the other PCB. We haev 2 push buttons to set the temperature and other settings, a vibration sensor for the sleep mode and the ATmega328p.AU microcontroller. See full part list for all the components.


scheamtic Arduino soldering iron T12 MSOFET

There are a few more pads for the UART connection so we could program the board. See that the board has no SPI connection, so the ATmega328 chip must have a bootloader, otherwise we won't be able to burn one later. This should be a improvement for future boards. Now let's see the layout.







PART 2 - layout


Below you have a picture with the top and bottom side of the PCB. You can see that the tracks on the input are very thick, 2mm in this case since those will have to withstand currents up to 2 or 3 amps from the input to the MOSFET and T12 tip connectors. Below you could also see a real distribution of the real PCB. To secure in place the T12 iron tip, I've used some PCB fuse clips. Those will be soldered in the middle of the PCB on the bottom side and that is the side that has the LM358 OPAMP. The buck converter must be soldered on the top side and the OLED screen as well. The rest are SMD so they can only be soldered on one side so there shouldn't be any problem.



layout PCB Arduino soldering iron






PART 3 - Mount the PCB

PART 3.1 - Bare minimum configuration of the ATmega328p-AU


First download PCB GERBER here:


Very important. First we have to make sure that the most important component of the PCB works. For that we have to solder 5 components. The ATmega328p-AU chip, the 16Mhz crystal, the R10 resistor of 1M ohm, the R11 pullup resistor of 10K ohms and the C2 capacitor for the DTR pin of 100nF.

atmega smd solder hot air

With these components, the chip should work. The 10K pullup will keep the chip active, the 16Mhz crystal will create the clock signal and the C2 capacitor is used to reset the chip with the DTR pulse. To test if it works, we have to connect an FTDI module an the UART pins. I then upload a test code that will write numbers on the serial monitor. Open the monitor and if you receive data, then the chip is ok and se can keep soldering components.

atmega328 SMD PCB board



PART 3.2 - Finish soldering components

Do not solder the buck converter till the end. We can solder all the other components but in this order: First solder all the remmaining resistors and capacitors. Then we solder the USB connector. Then the P-MOSFET IRF4905 with the small NPN on the gate as a driver. Next we can solder the ÑM358 OPAMP and the diode, capacitor and amplifier resisors.



atmega328 SMD PCB board





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