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Re: feedback on MXP board idea

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Originally Posted by wireties View Post
What else? Perhaps an Arduino circuit for custom LED string control, some diagnostic LEDs, a small display?
Any of these, except possibly the LEDs, is more likely to get the breakout ruled as "active". If you wanted to do something like these, the arduino, etc. should plug into the breakout rather than be part of it.

Another neat connector for this would be one designed so that a ribbon cable could bridge directly to a COTS 5V 4- or 8-port 5V relay module for LEDs or other light-duty custom circuits; many of them have very similar pinouts. (The module would need to get 12V power from the PDP, of course).
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