[dorkbotpdx-blabber] RE: Led breakout boards

[Donald Delmar Davis]

There are lots of reasons especially if you are doing 100 or more of  
anything to use a board.
Stability and uniformity for instance. Hans do you have an eagle of  
what you are thinking about?

On May 12, 2009, at 11:39 AM, 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
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