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DorkBord, Bottom View, notice lighter blue color and stylized ZDorkBoard name.. Your kit will come with the surface mount, 10K resistor ("103") and a short jumper on the pads in lower right hand corner already soldered in place

DorkBoard, Top View, notice darker blue color and no writing. Two 14 pin sockets inserted into oles to make a single 28 pin socket. Note the notch in each socket faces twards the single row of five holes for the programming connector. Be careful and makes sure all 14 pins of each socket come through their respective holes, check again, then solder. Make sure every pin is soldered.

The 0.1 UF monolithic capacitor is small and yellowish and marked ("104"), insert as shown on left and solder.Clip excess leads. 47 uF electrolytic capacitor is dark blue, insert with gray stripe (shot lead) to the outside edge. solder and clip excess leads. Take one 5 pin header, insert shorter pins from topside, turn over onto work surface and solder middle pin. Now check its straight up and down, If not heat pin and adjust. When straight solder rest of pins.

If you have a breadbaord, take a 5 pin header and a three pin header and insert them as shown with longest pins down into the board holes, shortest pins up, into these exact positions, that many rows apart and aligned as shown. If you don't have a breadboard, this s tricky and painstaking, but the trick is to get one pin soldered and then check pin positions and vertical alignment, if they are Ok, then solder the rest of the pins.

Now take the DorBoard, topside up, programming header to the left and place it onto the pins. The row nearest you, with 5 pins should have four(4) empty holes to the left of its leftmost pin. The row farthest from you with 3 pins should have six(6) empty holes to the left of its leftmost pin

DorkBoard, Bottom View, after pins soldered in. Note the one set of ends line up.

DorkBoard, Bottom View, now clip off unused pins as shown; on the three pin, clip pin #2, on the five pin, clip #'s 2 & 4

You need a piece of radio Shack project baord ( p/n: 276-148 ). It comes as two pieces joig along a perforation. Just flex it and break it in half, put one piece aside. tkae some very fine steel wool and clean the copper pads on the bottom. Insert the DorkBoard leaving three four rows of holes exposed on the side where you have two pins and 6-7 rows of holes on the 3 pin side.

DorkBoard, Topside layout. The 5 pins (reduced to three pins are from Left to Right Digital 3, skip one, Vcc, skip one, and Ground (the middle pin of the Resonator, thoug un mared is ground. The three pins (reduced to two) are, L to R Ground, skip one, Vcc.

Project Board, Bottom Side, turn board with bottom put and put a dab of solder on each pin to hold it to the project board. You now have firm anchors for connections and pleanty of holes and solder pads to do the additional circuit. Use the 3 pin side for the circuit and the two pin side to insert power. I suggest you use a fine drill to drill out a couple of holes to just big enough for the connecting wires (unstripped) from the battery and whatever switch you select, and from the LED array. pass the wires though from the bottom run them to where you want them, strip them and push them down through and solder on the bottom. Thse extar holes will act as strain relief.

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