soldering

And much of the soldering is done with solder ferrules (aka solder zaps) that sit over a wire and release solder when exposed to heat.

It is probably a niche application, and welding and soldering aren't quite the same, but it does happen.

If you're planning to keep one of these beyond the warranty period, know somebody with SMT soldering equipment.

They teach you about a lot of skills from soldering to robotics to design to flying to rigging cameras.

Turbinate cautery feels just like having a hot soldering iron shoved way up your nose.

You no longer have to break out the soldering iron to debug a program.

I've hung out in some pretty hostile places to get time with a soldering iron or a computer.

You don't make welders or soldering irons easy for people with zero experience.

Nah, I've done plenty of that sort of thing, am quite handy with a soldering iron.

I also know a lot about computer networks, and i've modded my computer on multiple occasions (I used a soldering iron).

I wonder if this has anything to do with Apple soldering on plenty of the hardware components (such as ram) or not.

I stay with the guy with the soldering iron on this one.

The word "Arduino", an interface that doesn't involve hand-soldering to a high-pitch Kapton ribbon, level shifters, neat features like RGB backlights and onboard input devices...

"many people are happy to assume that the person holding the soldering iron is automatically the one who is right" Well...

Soldering a crimp really only helps if you've done a poor job of crimping; but it's relatively easy to inspect a crimp.

Soldering it onto a breakout board, not so much.