Why no, good hu-person! For I have also soldered my own electric harness for a bracelet that won an award.

This was my first adventure with heat-shrink tubing and it went very well (lessons learned: soldering irons can't focus the heat to shrink a tube, matches work okay but they'll leave scorch marks). I also programmed the Arduino Pro Mini that wound up inside the actual bracelet.

I only got back into soldering recently. I had done it back in college, when I would make audio cables with XLR or 1/4" jacks. That was so annoying with only a table clamp but no alligator clips, so I hadn't gone back to it until I started playing with MCUs (micro controller units -- low-power CPUs with on-chip RAM and flash).

So I picked up a Simon Says learn to solder kit and got right back into the swing. PTH (poke through hole) soldering is so much easier than hoping a wire will stay put on a tiny half-pipe without a hole to loop the wire.

Meanwhile I have a small backlog of objects that I need or want to solder. I picked up two converter shields for my Teensy 3.0 and 3.1, which are 32-bit MCUs of high quality but almost random pinout locations. While I was visiting Noisebridge I even grabbed a DC Boarduino kit, which gives you an Arduino meant to mount directly onto a breadboard to make project testing a lot easier.

My comfort with electrical projects has increased. Back in May I even replaced three of the Bakelite two-prong outlets in my grandmother's house with grounded three-prongs. The scary cloth-wrapped rubber insulators on the wires have really held up!

Oh wait, you meant using a soldering iron to smolder the delicious crackocaine? Why no. Tin and lead vapor are no good for the lungs.