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A port to the Platino board was published in the July/August issue of the Elektor Magazine:

Elektor Website.

A detailed description of the project can be found in the July issue of the Funkamateur Magazine.

This page provides documents about a cheap SMD solder station built as an Arduino shield (Arduino UNO). It supports active soldering tips from Weller (RT series) which contain the heating element as well as a sensor and provides a standard 3.5 mm jack. Together with the corresponding female connector you will get a compact SMD soldering iron (see pictures below) with very fast heat up times of a few seconds.

The shield consists of a low-noise amplifier for measuring the temperature via the ADC of the AVR, a power MOSFET stage to control the heating using PWM and a 7-segment LED display and push buttons for setting and displaying the temperature. The controller is realized digitally on the AVR.

Hardware and software are open source.

See also the corresponding website at Elektor Labs!

Top view of the arduino shield

PCB

Connection diagram of the RT solder tip

Complete soldering station including case and power supply

Attention: All documents (schematics, PCB layout) and source code are exclusively for non-commercial use. Any commercial usage (distribution, production, further developments) are only allowed by my explicit approval.

rt_solder_station_v1_4_schematic.pdf

rt_solder_station_v1_4_place.pdf

old files:

rt_solder_station_v1_3b_schematic.pdf

rt_solder_station_v1_3b_place.pdf

rt_solder_station_v1_4.zip

old files:

rt_solder_station_v1_3b.zip

rt_solder_Station_v1_1.ino (added support for external standby switch)