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This may be obvious, but I thought I'd point it out anyway. If you ground your transistorless LEDs you will get the same phase as I get with my transistors grounding the LEDs and the positive feed always on. I just realised this watching the "user led" and a pwm led flashing in sync together, one driven directly by the CPU, the other by a transistor...

If you do this, it means no code mods to get the same behaviour as me with less soldering and less components.

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I was thinking about doing that actually. What program do you use to draw electrical diagrams? We should probably start getting some diagrams together as we work along.

I've played with KiCad which is the only decent open source one available as far as I know. Eagle is free to use up to 100 x 80, and therefore fine for drawing schematics for testing etc, but not fine for final designs as it rules out commercial production too...

Hooking up an LED hardly needs a diagram though does it? :-)

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Admin wrote:I've played with KiCad which is the only decent open source one available as far as I know. Eagle is free to use up to 100 x 80, and therefore fine for drawing schematics for testing etc, but not fine for final designs as it rules out commercial production too...

Hooking up an LED hardly needs a diagram though does it?

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Haha, no but it would be nice to have a schematic for "Opti-spark" interfacing, ya know what I mean. Stuff to piece together when we design the mb.