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It's really weird to scroll past all these fantastical hardware achievements/products, and still end up a little bit disappointed since there was no update about their soldering iron (the "Pinecil").

Really looking forward to that one, it seems like a good contender to the TS80/TS100 irons but more open and so on.

It should be due for release around end of September, so ... fingers crossed. :)

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I was disappointed, too, but they added an update in a comment[1]:

> Right, the Pinecil is coming along; Ben Brown who’s porting his firmware to the RISC-V chip ran into some problems with the prototype we sent him (our fault), so a new unit is on its way to him now. Once he confirms that everything is working as intended we’ll file a production request with the factory. I too am waiting for it with anticipation and hope that it won’t be much longer before we get it in the store.

[1]: https://www.pine64.org/2020/09/15/september-update-let-it-si...

Late update: it seems they've added a suitable category to their store now, but without any actual product(s) listed.

[1]: https://pine64.com/product-category/soldering-irons/

Thanks, that's great to hear! Nice find.

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