{"id":28446,"date":"2021-01-09T03:07:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/?p=28446"},"modified":"2021-01-09T03:07:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:07:35","slug":"helping-hands-reinvented-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/2021\/01\/09\/helping-hands-reinvented-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Hands, Reinvented"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Nixie] was tired of using whatever happens to be around to hold things in place while soldering and testing. It was high time to obtain a helping hands of some kind, but [Nixie] was dismayed by commercial offerings — the plain old alligator clips and cast metal type leave a lot to be desired, and the cooling tube \"\"<\/a>cephalopod type usually have the alligator clips just jammed into the standard tube ends with no thought given to fine control or the possibility of reducing cable count.<\/p>\n

[Nixie] happened to have some unneeded cooling tube lying around and started designing a new type of helping hands from the ground plane up<\/a>. Taking advantage of the fact that cooling tubes are hollow,\u00a0 [Nixie] routed silicone-jacketed wires through them for power and low speed signals. These are soldered to five banana jacks that are evenly spaced around an alligator clip.<\/p>\n

Even if you don’t need power, all those extra alligators would come in quite handy for circuit sculpture or anything else that requires a lot of hands. [Nixie] put the files up on Thingiverse<\/a> if you want to make your own.<\/p>\n

We’ve seen plenty of helping hands over the years, but this concrete-based helper ought to cement your decision to make your own<\/a>.<\/p>\n

source https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/01\/08\/helping-hands-reinvented\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Nixie] was tired of using whatever happens to be around to hold things in place while soldering and testing. It was high time to obtain a helping hands of some kind, but [Nixie] was dismayed by commercial offerings — the…<\/span><\/p>\n

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