Assembling a cheap, basic electronics kit (LM3915)
Channel: makho
Date: 30/07/2019

I often recommend that people start soldering with cheap kits. I just wanted to take the time and step through the assembly of one particular kit I picked up. This kit is a VU Meter based on the LM3915 chip. It uses all through-hole components and a single sided PCB.

This is the particular kit I purchased: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32875501726.html but I do recommend browsing around and seeing if there are any other kits of interest. 

I know it took me a while to assemble this rather simple kit, but I wanted to walk through every step that I took and I did make some mistakes along the way (some were on purpose) to try and show some ways to recover from common mistakes.