By now most readers will be familiar with the Miniware TS100 and TS80 soldering irons, compact and lightweight temperature controlled soldering tools that have set a new standard at the lower-priced end of the decent soldering iron market. We know they have an STM32 processor, a USB interface, and an OLED display, and that there have been a variety of alternative firmwares produced for them.
Take a close look at the TS80, and you’ll find the element connector is rather familiar. It’s a 3.5 mm jack plug, something we’re more used to as an audio connector. Surely audio from a soldering iron would be crazy? Not if you are [Joric], who has created a music player firmware for the little USB-C iron. It’s hardly a tour de force of musical entertainment and it won’t pull away the audiophiles from their reference DACs, but it does at least produce a recognisable We Wish You A Merry Christmas as you’ll see from the video below the break.
Since the TS100 arrived a couple of years ago we’ve seen a variety of inventive firmware for it. You may remember [Joric]’s previous triumph of a Tetris game for the iron, but our favourite is probably the TS100 oscilloscope.
Thanks [cahbtexhuk] for the tip.
those earphones are fried
I’m off to try this with my 60v Weller !
Playing 1-bit music from my 36 year old VZ200 cassette port to my Weller soldering iron for a speaker.
I plugged in my soldering iron and then shoved it in my cassette player in my car. All that happened was smoke came out and now it won’t play any tapes. Any ideas what went wrong?
Theres a loose nut behind the steering wheel😉 The auto equivalent of a PEBKAC error…
1/4 Cassette or 8-Track?
You can’t just stuff it in the front.
You have to hold it against both wires at the same time, or you won’t get any sound.
If it’s a soldering iron shouldn’t it play “Feelin’ Hot, Hot, Hot”? But if you think that is something check out what this guy got out of a welding gun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharpe_Shaver
Or maybe…
(Can’t recall the artist for this one) – “Burn, Baby Burn”
Johnny Cash – “Ring of Fire”
Bob Seeger – “The Fire Down Below”
Icehouse – “Touch The Fire”
John Farnham – “Burn For You”
Noiseworks – “Burning Feeling”
Mike Curb Congregation – “Burning Bridges”
Midnight Oil – “Beds Are Burning” (serves you right if you’re playing with a soldering iron in bed!)
INXS – “Burn For You”
John Mellencamp – “Paper in Fire”
Pat Benetar – “All Fired Up”
Def Leppard – “Ring Of Fire”
Deep Purple – “Into The Fire”
Chris De Burgh – “Light A Fire”
Of course, all of these are copyrighted, so YouTube “performance” might be an issue here. ;-)
You’re going to say “OK Boomer” but you forgot The Doors.
This be the best reply of the decade.
“Light My Fire”… sure. Actually The Doors are on my lengthy to-obtain list.