I highly suggest drinking heavily while prepping the wire since it is so mundane of a task. I've, for all intensive purposes, depleted one mile of wiring. I have 28 7 foot, 48 8.5 foot, and 56 9.5 foot lengths left to cut I believe. I don't have my cheat sheet with me so that is my best estimate.

Now the question of why my board only needs 450 LEDs instead of 1344. Because my LEDs are just naturally better. No, actually I went with Tri colored LEDs. So I only have one instead of 3. Makes me 3 times more efficient and sexier says an independent, non-scientific study I took over the weekend at a bar.

LED progress: I've gotten 5 out of the 6 needed bends already done. I'm about 1/3 the way through the last bend. I still need to add in the heat shrink, the final snip, mount to a SIPP, and then solder it up. I may change how these are soldered to the SIPP socket after doing a test solder on the hook up wire. I think it will be easier to do the LED to male SIPP on the LED instead of hook up wire.

is an example of what I'm talking about regarding the bends. 6 in total. You get surprisingly good at it once your arm goes numb.

I also managed to watch a ton of TV this weekend due to having to put in a ton of man hours on the bending and cutting. I can honestly say I'm an expert on World War 2 now due to the History Channel.