Remove LED from Arduino Board!

       Remove that pesky pin 13 LED from your arduino board once and for all!
And in less than five minutes! talk about a quick fix.

        "Why Remove the LED?" you ask? Simple! It draws current from pin 13. so If I try to drive an external LED, like an LED matrix or a seven-segment display, the LED being driven by pin 13 won't be as bright as it's neighbors. this is an infuriating problem.
       "Can't I just disable the LED?" No, sadly, you cannot. if you look at
the LED section of the Arduino PCB board schematic,
you can see that it is hard wired into the circuit with no on/off switch.

       So, without further adieu, We shall pry at the open-source hardware that is Arduino.

Step 1 Tools and Materials

PARTS and TOOLS:

• soldering iron
• tweezers
• helping hands tool (this is very helpful indeed)
• Arduino Board of your choice

The parts are shown and tagged below:

Comments

[Jordan arduino]

i dont argue i like the led on pin 13 it elemenates
trouble of buy ing a single led i conecte pin 13 to an digital output
and it works by the way


ITS AN ARDUINO

[Mudbud]

If you have an arduino... You SHOULD have at least one LED... :P

[everywhere]

you may not realize that there is also a resistor on pin 13 along with the LED and that is what limits the output

[rtty21]

i checked the official Arduino Uno Schematic and the resistor you are referring to must be inside one of the integrated circuits because I don't see it the schematic.
lol, I'm sorry If I sound standoff-ish. I am trying as hard as I can not to be!

[everywhere]

it may also just be on the duemilanove

[TheTeslaWarrior]

why not run it through an OR gate?

[willrandship]

Big chip for an led :P

[rtty21]

personally, I don't like the pin 13 LED enough to go to the trouble of soldering an OR gate onto my arduino board.

but I encourage you to do it!
It would be awesome if you wanted to post some pictures of it if you decide to!

--Rtty21

[Odomus]

Though I do not have an Arduino.... I want one... but this is a good idea i have seen the videos I agree it seems to be very dull if using an external LED.

I like it.... great one just for a small little help and info.

Grats... thank you.