The Raspberry PI Pico and Pico-W come in soldered (Pico-H and Pico-WH) and unsoldered versions (Pico and Pico-W). You pay slightly more for the soldered version. In this video, I show how to easily solder the header pins onto the Pico.
Unlike the Pico-H which uses a JST-SH socket, I solder straight and 90-degree pins onto the SWD port. Soldering straight header pins onto the GPIO pins allows us to place the Pico straight into a breadboard for project work.
For a full tutorial on soldering, I recommend my fellow Udemy Tutor Shubham Tiwari’s course, “Learning Soldering Through Hold and Surface Mount Components”: https://www.udemy.com/course/learning-soldering-through-hole-and-surface-mount-components/?referralCode=1652F3A5A9F50CFBDC5B
If you are new to the Pico and C/C++ development on the Pico, then why not take a look at my introduction course on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/introduction-to-c-development-environment-for-raspberry-pico/?referralCode=875319E04F95C9EC3414
