The Consumer Reports breadboard badge is simple and apparently designed to introduce kids to the world of electronics like the old Radio Shack, ‘100-in-1 Electronics Projects’ kits.

Looking for a fun and easy way to add a bit more interaction to your LED-laden projects? Why not turn them into proximity sensing LEDs? Our hacker, [Will], is just getting into designing his own PC… ...

If the value falls below a certain level, we could turn one LED on and another off, for example. If the value rises above that level, we could turn the first LED off and the second LED on. Some time ...

All a man needs is a breadboard, a boxful of LEDs and a couple of cheap microcontrollers. Bliss. Global Thermonuclear War, presumably, requires a more capable processor ...