How to Solder: This guide focuses on soldering for the beginner and explains how you can solder a variety of components using a few different techniques - from the classy to the downright caveman. Although soldering can seem daunting at first, once you give it a t…

In Kingfisher Cecilia uses a condenser on her fiddle but combines it with effects pedals. This is a bit awkward to get working, and we've been using a Soundcraft Notepad mini-mixer. Unfortunately we had some issues recently where adjusting the input gain would make horrible scratchy noises: I thought I'd need to take the mixer apart to clean it, but a bit of looking online turned up suggesti

According to various online posts, the Soundcraft Notepad line of mixers tends to develop various faults of the USB audio inteface after a few years, including constant noise. Fortunately, if you can live without the digital parts of the mixer, there's a workaround.

The CrowPi2 exterior is a little rough, but inside beats a solid electronic heart. By Lucy Hattersley

Crowpi is an amazing kit to help you learn computer science, programming, electronics and master Raspberry Pi.