14: Spark is now Particle (?)

See
http://spark.cmail1.com/t/ViewEmail/t/2CCE5B6961CA5D4E/9BDBDA8F3EFB0BE0C67FD2F38AC4859C

They say 681 other trademarks created confusion. Maybe. Maybe someone offered to sue them. Still very interesting company.

(why not "webino" or "cloudino")

13: LED Bar Graph

I bought 3 of these from All Electronics (as I recall). $.50 each.

I assumed these were a 1-piece item, but nope:

note the +/– markings

Each separated LED is dimly marked too:

Too bad they didn't build the ground-side resistors in. Otherwise, the 2 pins neatly fit in adjacent breadboard rows -- and make for tidy wiring.