[dorkbotpdx-blabber] RE: Led breakout boards

[Hans Lindauer]

Sure, there are lots of ways of hooking an LED to a voltage source.  But 
I was thinking about something a little more clean, professional, and 
user-friendly. 

As my old boss used to say, "We're not trying to win a beauty contest, 
here.  But we're not trying to win an ugly contest, either."

Once you solder on wires for extra reach and then some shrink tube to 
keep everything from shorting out... I don't know about you, but I have 
to start charging for my time. 


Jim Larson wrote:
> Why bother with a board at all? Just cut off most of one leg of the 
> Led, solder on a resistor, and now you can hook it directly to an 
> output on your microcontroller. The other leg is tied to Vcc or 
> ground. Resistors of 200 to 1K ohm work fine for AVRs. (These are 
> known as "blinkenlights", BTW.)
>
>                                                          -jkl