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How to build a 1,024,000 mcd portable light

Step 2Getting started!

Getting started!
Heat up your soldering iron, and get out your LEDs and sidecutter.

I assume you're using LEDs with a 3.3v forward voltage drop. In fact, the entire project uses that assumption. Adjust your numbers accordingly if that's not true for you.

You will solder down 16 rows of 4 LEDs, so stuff the first row in to the board. You'll connect these positive to negative down the row, so make sure they all point the same direction.
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