    If you haven’t already heard, we’re excited to be running
the Make It Last, a project build series and contest, sponsored
by Microchip and Energizer. Throughout the course of this
series, we’re going to cover three project builds, each
demonstrating an example of low-power design using
microcontrollers.  Just getting started? We suggest you take a
look at the announcement post for an introduction to the series,
then follow along with these instructions to build the first
stage of our first project, a data logger, and learn how to say
‘hello, world’ with a blinking light!  If you haven’t signed up
for the newsletter, you should do that, too. We’re about to send
out the second issue.  Step 0: Collect supplies   Parts list:
• Microhip18LF25K22 microcontroller   • Solderlesss breadboard
• 100k resistor   • 1x3mm red LED   • 1uF capacitor   • .1″ male
header (6 pins long)   • Breadboard jumper wires     • PICkit 3
programmer, for programming the processor   • Pliers (optional,
for bending wires)  Note: Yo