Pinecil – Smart Mini Portable Soldering Iron (Version 2)

Next-gen Soldering iron

I hate soldering and avoid doing it wherever possible. Even with a solder press, I struggle and have been loathed to buy an expensive solder station or figure out the different standards of iron tips. Though not the first USB-powered "smart" Soldering iron on the market, it is quite possibly the best value. It can be powered via a USB-C charger (need MINIMUM of a 45w, ideally 65w, which may be an extra expense), however the barrel jack that can use any voltage between 12-24v means you can repurpose any old 12/24v power supply (even mod your 3D printer with a power connector if you're advanced enough!) and even a 19.5v laptop power supply (might need a barrel jack adaptor) The TS100/101 tips are brilliant. If the average soldering iron tip was a V6 nozzle, these are more akin to Nextruder/Creality Unicorn nozzles in that they make up for the entire iron core. Even if you have to splash out for a decent power supply/USB C charger, it still performs well above equivalently-priced hobby-store irons. It has a built-in accelerometer where it can be set to sleep if not picked-up/moved in a set time period. The ability to mod it (it even has bluetooth) is probably superfluous for most users, though I imaging these features exist purely because they're built into pretty much every microprocessor now anyway.