Make sure you have all the parts needed to build your Propeller Platform

Let's start with the resistors. There are four, bend the leads and insert them into the board.

• R4 is 10k ohms, Brown - Black - Orange
• R1 is 1,100 ohms, Brown - Brown - Red
• R2 is 470 ohms, Yellow - Violet - Brown
• R3 220 ohms, Red - Red - Brown

Flip the board over and spread the leads apart. Solder them to the board and trim off the excess wire.

Now the capacitors:

• Find the tantalum capacitor, it's brown and long-ish. Note there's writing on the side - the longer lead is positive and it's marked with a small + on the capacitor. That goes in the circuit board
• The smaller brown capacitor is ceramic, it goes at the spot shown in the photo, towards the bottom of the board. It isn't polarized, so it doesn't matter which lead goes in which hole.

There are three LED's on the board to indicate when things are powered up. The two green LED's go at the areas marked '5.0' and '3.3'. LED's are polarized, the shorter lead on the green LED's go through the square holes.

• The two green LED's go at the areas marked '5.0' and '3.3'. LED's are polarized, the shorter lead on the green LED's go through the square holes.
• The red LED indicates when there's power on the board, and goes at the spot marked 'PWR'. NOTE: The red LED is a bit weird, the Longer lead goes in the square hole, opposite of how the green LED's went in.

Let's add the last three capacitors:

• Find the Electrolytic Capacitors, they look like mini black cylinders. They are polarized - the stripe marks the negative lead, which goes in the hole opposite the + marked on the circuit board.
• They go on the middle of the board, as shown in the photo.

Add the reset switch to the board, as shown in the photo.

There are two voltage regulators, one is 5V and the other is 3.3V:

The 5V Vreg goes on the top (marked VR1), and the 3.3V Vreg goes on bottom (marked VR2). You can tell them apart by looking at the text written on each. The 5V will have the number 50, and the 3.3V will have the number 33

Add the power switch on the left of the board, as shown in the photo

We're going to make a crystal holder out of the two included machine pins. First, use your dikes to strip off all the plastic. Once done, you'll have two bare pins.

Insert the two pins where the crystal goes (the two big holes above where the Propeller chip will be).

Put a bit of masking tape over the top of the pins and flip over the board and solder them in.

Back on top, remove the tape and insert the crystal as far as it will go into the pins.

Flip the board back over and trim the pins all the way down to the board.

Finally, push the crystal all the way through and trim off the excess leads.