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LEDs

The first thing everybody wires up, and the first thing everybody destroys.

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  1. 08An LED and its resistor6 minAn LED does not have a resistance. It has a voltage it insists on, and it will take whatever current is left over to get it — which is why the resistor beside it is not a suggestion and why a blue LED refuses to light on 3.3 V.

Start at 08 and read down — the order is the order things get easier in. Or take the one with your part in it; every article stands on its own, and links back to whatever it needs.

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