Testing: Using rev - of board. All capacitors suggested values. Testing with the same LSM303C, and ATTiny441. all operating at 115,200. Rev 635 of firmware. Test 1: 5V from shrink tubed USB serial dongle with 20cm leds. Orientation, mostly up, tilted down on regulator side. 3.0V Regulator (MCP1824) 4.92V at device 3.02V after regulator Standard of Deviation: 5.81 5.81 6.61 5.39 5.56 12.84 0.95 Test 2: Same as test 1, except upside down. Standard of Deviation: 5.85 3.48 7.05 5.57 5.64 12.53 0.92 Test 3: Mains at 3.3V from USB dongle thing. Tilted toward AVR. 3.0V Regulator (MCP1824) 3.37 at device 3.02 on regulator Standard of Deviation: 5.29 10.25 6.99 4.96 5.73 12.25 0.83 Test 4: Same as test 3, just upside down. Standard of deviation: 4.48 3.67 6.53 5.87 5.75 12.83 0.87 Test 5: 3.3V from shrink wrap, 2.5V reg. 2.5V Regulator(TR2EF25) 3.31 at device. 2.49 on regulator Standard of deviation: 3.82 4.51 6.08 5.28 6.51 12.12 0.85 Test 6: Same as Test 5, except upside down Standard of deviation: 4.06 3.71 5.59 5.62 5.19 12.53 0.89 Test 7: 3.3V from shrink wrap, 2.8V reg. 2.78V on regulator 3.3 at device Standard of deviation 10.13 6.32 11.24 5.37 5.72 11.80 0.91 Test 8: Same as test 7, except upside down. Standard of deviation 3.63 4.12 5.65 5.86 5.19 12.84 0.99 (Data from this run was lost) You know what... 3.0V is good /enough/ and gives us the widest AVR range. Now, let's try tests with LED. 5V input, 3.0V regulated. Upside down. Test 9: LEDs off: 3.91 5.11 7.94 5.65 5.98 12.71 1.12 Test 10:LEDs 64/128/200: 7.07 7.02 6.22 5.31 5.57 12.25 1.77 Test 11:LEDs 64/128/200: 5.35 3.47 5.89 4.95 5.26 12.00 0.90 Test 12:LEDs ff/ff/ff: 5.15 3.87 5.58 5.49 5.18 12.28 1.19 Test 13: Just turned off: 5.23 9.31 11.17 5.30 4.77 12.33 1.85 (You can see temp sailing down) Looks like temperature differentials are what is killing us, not the LED disrupting the power.