Phew!

So please help me decide which products you'd most like to see by voting in the below poll, and if you have any other ideas please post them in the comments section or send me an email.

My PIC Prototyping board won the Hackaday Design Challenge . A big thankyou to Hackaday for running the competition, there were some great entries submitted.

Apologies for the lack of updates over the last month, I have had a lot on and haven't had time to put up some new stuff. But I have been working on an updated function generator, with a few new features and a cleaner design.

This design is for a simple crystal oscillator tester. When projects that use crystals don't work, it can be caused by a non working crystal. This circuit will let you check and eliminate dead crystals from your own projects.

If you have ever seen projects involving LED Matrix displays, wanted to know how they work, or how to use them in your own project then this guide is for you. The construction and operation of the LED matrix display will be explained, as well as various ways to control them.

 

Picture from Sparkfun Electronics

 

My Hackaday entry is a PIC Microcontroller prototyping board, based on the 28 pin Microchip 18F2x5x USB enabled microcontrollers.
There are three different versions - one through hole DIP and two surface mount SOIC versions.

With the use of the included USB bootloader, the user can easily program the microcontroller in a few seconds via the USB port.