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what is Soldered

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soldered /ˈsəʊldəd/, past participle from solder verb: to join pieces of metal or wire with solder

  • solder something to/onto something These wires must be soldered to the pins.
  • solder A and B together Solder the two pieces together.
  • solder something soldered joints

(Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, 2022: online)

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What do WE MAKE?

We join our knowledge and product data with our customers by supporting and sharing through an open makers’ digital community.

We are joining our engineering expertise and experience with electronic components into innovative, high quality and in-house designed and manufactured electronic products.

We are joining hobbyists, educators and industry professionals with their ideas, needs and challenges through maker culture.

We are MAKING for MAKERS.

What is THE MAKER CULTURE?

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MAKERS of SOLDERED

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David Zovko

Founder and Managing Director

Started the company as a 15-year-old with $20 of initial capital. In electronics since he knows for himself.

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Borna Biro

Head of Engineering

Long and respectful list of experiences in the electronics hobby and industry. Your true electronics master and a hardcore maker.

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Goran Grčić

Head of Manufacturing

Analytical structured mind passionate about improving company production processes. Former athlete and mathematician.

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Igor Štrangarević

Project Manager

Experienced manager with 20+ years of experience in various fields.

SOLDERED TEAM

Talented profesionals are using their skills supporting all the needs for our MAKER’S COMMUNITY

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Monika Kun
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Ivan Fadiga
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Iva Grbeša
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Bruno Matković
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Robert Sorić
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and other colleagues

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MAKING Soldered company

Soldered electronics started as a high school garage project of founder and today’s managing director David Zovko in 2013.

After 3 years of hand making electronic boards for friends and hobby colleagues, David is registering company e-radionica and starts professionally to work for the maker’s community together with 2 new employees.

In the next 5 years the company designed and produced numerous products and services for makers around the world with exponential growth.

From 2022 the company is changing name to Soldered Electronics marking a new phase in company development.

MAKING History

2013
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Even before the company was official David launched a first Kickstarter campaign which was the first of its kind on the local market.

Unfortunately not a successful one but a great experience for all successful campaigns which will come in future.

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Selling LED diodes and some other basic electronic components, such as microcontrollers, supplying makers’ needs on the local market at that time.

Since that beginning we have been selling, designing and making only open-source electronics products.

2014
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Making the first microcontroller board Croduino Basic. In the coming years this Arduino compatible board will be sold in more than 6.000 pieces.

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Design of the first educational program with Croduino kit for an entry level user packed with Croduino board and other compatible electronic components.

Kit was a commercial success with 2.500 kits sold.

2015
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Making Croduino Pico as a cheaper version of the commercially successful Croduino Basic microcontroller board.

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Making Croduino Damba as a smaller and wearable version of the commercially successful Croduino Basic microcontroller board.

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Expanding offer of educational programs with Croduino kits for different needs and areas of interest with design of Hobby, IoT and Refill Croduino kits.

2016
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Making the first in-house design of boards, sensors and actuators resulted with company products like BMP180 temperature and pressure sensor breakout and Stepper motor driver board.

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Start offering technical customer support with engineers answering the questions to customers stuck with their projects within 24 hours.

2017
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Making Croduino Basic 2 as the second generation of the commercially successful Crodurino Basic microcontroller board which will become the most sold company’s product in the next few years.

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Making Croduino Nova as the first WiFi-enabled board design allowing makers to connect their hardware to the internet in an hour of work.

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Start of making customer tutorials covering the usage of all boards in simple terms with technical information, work principle description, instructions for connecting and basic code.

2018
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Making easyC as a standardised and easy to use system of cables and connectors for prototyping and connecting electronic boards based on I2C communication.

2019
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Testing financing new products with the first crowdfunding campaign for Maker LED display project which resulted in collecting 222% of the founding goal.

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+Starts commercially to offer its 3D printing production resources to customers, alongside other services.

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2020
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Worldwide popular Inkplate 6 was successfully crowdfunded with 1214% of funding goal. Inkplate 6 changed the way of using e-paper screens making it available and easy-to-use to makers for their own projects.

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Company is helping the community with donation in COVID-19 pandemic.

2021
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Making and successful crowdfunding campaign for Inkplate 6 PLUS in version with high resolution screen, touchscreen and frontlightning functionality.

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Making and successful crowdfunding campaign for Inkplate 10 in version with larger and high resolution screen with touchscreen and frontlightning functionality.

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Product portfolio redesign of all 170 company’s products on new brand standard allinging appearance, quality and functionality features.

2022
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Making and successful crowdfunding campaign for Inkplate 6 COLOR in version with colour and high resolution screen, touchscreen and frontlightning functionality.

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E-radionica is rebranding as a Soldered electronics company.

2023
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Making and successful crowdfunding campaign for Inkplate 5.

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Soldered Inkplate 2-Inkplate-e-ink

Making and successful crowdfunding campaign for the Inkplate 2  Arduino-compatible board that features a three-color e-paper display.

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2024
Verify

We have launched the Soldered Verify system, which guarantees product quality and provides detailed insight into the testing data of each manufactured board.

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Soldered TODAY

Today Soldered is an organic-growth privately owned self-financed company with electronic products and services located in the European Union, in the town of Osijek in Republic of Croatia.

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So far, Soldered has designed more than About Us Tooltip1 200 electronic products manufactured in About Us Tooltip2225.000 pieces and delivered in About Us Tooltip380 countries with About Us Tooltip44.8 average review score. Besides electronic production, Soldered has made more than About Us Tooltip5
200 free tutorials and manuals
with descriptions and schemes of electronic products, helping makers with usage of codes and project examples for them. Soldered offers About Us Tooltip624/7 customer and technical support to makers for all our products without distinguishing sales channels.

Our partners in MAKING ARE

Distributors

Some of the large electronics retail companies round the world had recognized Soldered products as innovative and high-quality electronic products for their customers

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Mouser Electronics

Seventh biggest electronics distributor in the world is selling our products globally.

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DigiKey

Eight biggest electronics distributor in the world is selling our products globally.

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Switch Science

The biggest Arudino distributor in Japan is selling our products.

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Pimoroni

One of the largest makers-oriented companies in the UK is selling our products.

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Lextronic

Electronic company for over 50 years on French market is selling our products.

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MiniElektro

Denmark's largest retailer of development electronics is selling our products.

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Kouluelektronikika

Kouluelektronikika is a recognized reseller in Finland, selling our products among a versatile selection of electronic components.

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Semaf Electronics

One of the best known electronic components and product resellers in Austria is selling our products.

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Epromirok

Hungarian online store mainly deals with the distribution of universal IC programmers also selling our products.

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Kubii

Kubii is a French distributor of Raspberry products and other accessories is selling our products.

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Welectron

Welectron, a distributor from Germany offers a selection of products in the areas of test equipment, embedded systems and component kits is selling our products.

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GoTronic

Go Tronic, a distributor from France has a wide range of electronic tools and also selling Soldered products.

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Elektor Store

Elektor, a renowned electronics brand in the Netherlands for over 60 years, is selling our products globally.

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Chipoteka

Croatian retail chain of consumer electronics with over 30 years of existence is selling our products.

Educators

Many educational organisations and companies in our region had recognised Soldered products as great electronics products for various STEM programs.

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Croatian Makers

Privately funded non-profit organisation which had developed and implemented the largest extracurricular program in the EU. Use a wide range of Soldered products for educational programs in coding, robotics and IoT, involving 1.000 educational institutions, 3.000 teachers and more than 300.000 children.

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Školska knjiga

Leading Croatian publishing company specialised in upbringing and education content. Use Soldered educational electronics as part of elementary school technical boxes for more than 20.000 children each school year

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BIGZ školstvo

Leading Serbian schoolbook publisher.
Use Soldered robotics controllers in primary education for 5.000 children each school year.

Educational Institutions

All higher public technical educational institutions in our country are using Soldered products for purposes of teaching and demonstrations in class, graduation thesis work and research projects.

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Zagreb

Leading Croatian national and regional research and higher technical education institution

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology, Osijek

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Split

Professionals

Some of advanced technology industry companies are using Soldered products in researching and prototyping electronic solutions.

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Infineon

One of top ten biggest semiconductor companies in the world.

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RIMAC automobili

Production of electrical cars and automotive technology.

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Končar - Electrical Engineering Institute

Research and development provider in energetics and train transportation.

Singtel

The Singtel Group, Asia's leading communications group provides a diverse range of services including fixed, mobile, data, internet and TV.

We are always very proud on positive reviews and comments on our making

5 out of 5
for Junk box - electronics
by aldoorovic on January 01, 2024

100% vrijedno 5 eura, kad mi je paket prvo stigao mislio sam da je to neka pogreška koliki je bio unutra su bila prava blaga! Brojne elektroničke komponente te dva inkplate 10 e-papir display kojima samo fali Esp-WROWER modul, preporučujem svima!

by hperadin on December 26, 2023

Super proizvod, i super podrška od ekipe iz Soldered Electronics. Odlično ako se hoćete ubacit u hobi elektroniku i programiranje, ili imate klinca kojem bi htjeli približit nešto od toga.

5 out of 5
for Soldered Inkplate 6COLOR
by Programming With Nick on December 18, 2023

I have used many e-paper display boards in the past. This is the best I have ever used. Very well designed hardware. Great Library. Great support. Highly recommended.