Your My First Soldering Iron™ need not be terrible, though. For his project for The Hackaday Prize, [HP] is working on a soldering iron that is cheap, accurate, and uses the very nice Weller RT ...

Weller has soldering irons in its line-up that have a motion sensor which reports to the station when the soldering iron is in use. With this the stand-by interval is continually reset, or the ...