The breakout boards I ordered from adafruit arrived today. As soon as I could, I soldered on a TLC29282 so I could breadboard it and start testing it and writing the software for the spinner. Turns out it is kinda difficult to solder at this pitch. Although, I don’t think my soldering iron is working very well either. I accidentally left it on for several days one time and now it feels a little different. As I was testing that I hadn’t left any solder bridges, it suddenly occurred to me that I didn’t have any of the headers I needed to actually use this:

So, now it’s a couple more days while I wait for headers to show up in the mail… 🙁