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Order and clarity

At my age, memory is not what it used to be, so I find it helpful to help it out with copious documentation.

One thing I have found helpful is to make and print little cards with pinouts of all the pieces that I am using. I have put them online here: http://www.villamil.org/images/pcomp-pinouts/

Please feel free to use them. Right now is mostly documentation for Arduino mini, Xbee radio, and AD5206 digital pot.

I also make little cheat-sheets for different parts of my projects. For example, here is how I will connect multicolor LEDs to the AD5206 digital pot in my final project:

It saves a lot of time, and is less distracting than keeping laptop open to look for datasheets all the time.

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It looks very useful. Very good idea!

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