Soldering tiny things

Some people make soldering look so easy. It's not. Not for me. I made a bit of a mess of my practice board, but at least it helped me get the hang of it a bit. 0805 sized components are pretty small, 0603 is just tiny! It's pretty difficult to get them straight on the board. SOT-23 is just as awful. SO-16 was doable fortunately, I'd hate to have that one messed up. But I'm going to stay away from TQFP for now, I made a terrible mess out of those.

The first board I finished turned out okay, nothing to be terribly proud of. 

Also did a bit of practicing with my new cable crimp tool, the first couple of cables are pretty horrible, but the last few went pretty well.