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There is zero shame in buying preassembled boards, modules, jacks with presoldered wires attached or anything like that. Or kits with all the surface mount work done for you.

There's a lot of great options for constructing things from modules and cable harnesses out there these days, and if it's the easiest way to build the project you're envisioning, go for it!

This is especially true if you are unable to solder or do fine detail work well!

At the end of the day, you still made something, and it's yours.

(Also, if you think I solder all of my own connectors and surface mount stuff, you'd be wrong)

Yes, this is a subtoot based on DMs and conversations that have happened over the past few months where folks have commented to me that they don't feel like they're doing real hardware hacking because they're not designing their own PCBs or soldering every wire or something.

Just go out there and make things!