Testing LEDs quickly - a new tutorial!
Test your bare LEDs with a set of hacked tweezers - and don't worry about polarity!
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Though it was an interesting lab experiment, the transfer of mass from car to hat turned out to have little practical value.
Now on to our post. Today we'd like to direct your attention to a new tutorial written by our testing guru Pete Lewis. Pete found a great hack to quickly and easily test LEDs using a pair of fast-switching tweezers.
Pete used an Arduino Pro Mini, some multimeter tweezers, and a few other pieces to create a quick solution for testing out LEDs you have laying around. Is it red? Is it green? Is this the LED that I accidentally destroyed? These tweezers make answering these questions easy. Here is the wish list with the parts you'll need to build your own:
Check out the full tutorial to see how to put together a pair of your own. Happy hacking!
Interested in learning more about LEDs?
See our LED page for everything you need to know to start using these components in your project.
