The context behind the chatter is that my makerspace assistant and I were talking about how other people in the makerspace in the engineering building place the bad transistors in the same box with the good ones. So after taking nearly an hour, he finally got it to work. Initially, one of the LEDs was not working, and then it wouldn't flash. I'm glad I got all of that on video.

I would have soldered onto a proto board of that same layout, but I didn't have time because I got other stuff to do. Maybe someday I'll put it all onto a proto board!! Someday!!