And now you will understand why I will never employ a University-trained person again.
One screwed me over by walking out after half-finishing his first project, the second said: “Oh, I don’t do soldering,” and the third I can’t remember. None of them had the slightest idea of designing something economical or efficient and they took ages to do the slightest amount of work.
Getting 10 PIC’s to do the job, when I said you only need to put 3 in series and jumper them from behind. Cut the jumper to illuminate each LED as necessary.
Or even put a 5 cent slide-switch across each LED.