GIVEAWAY: Three NU-Xtal packages
Mats has dazzled us with his board a week projects, and now one of them could be yours! Today Mats is giving away three NU-Xtal packages, a crystal breakout for breadboard prototyping. Each package has:
- One pre-built 16MHz unit
- One pre-built 20 MHz unit
- One unpopulated PCB
Leave a comment on this post with a project idea and this board could be yours!
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I would use it to power AVRMega on breadboards for developing a 868 MHz house automation controller.
Fascinating.
I will add this to a Home-brew gameconsole of mine, got the cpu, an NXP Cortex and LCD ready, was thinking about adding an crystal on breadboard but this looks awesome and easy to use. going to breadboard it, add the ps2 joysticks I have and progamme some games for it on SD card. I hope NXP will ship my sample with USB-OTG :P
hope to make NES games posible :D
i would use it for an usb pic based power analyzer.
It would go into my general tool pile that I use for a mobile electronics lab that I am putting together. With the first child on the way, I will be using my lunch time to play with electronics, but to do that, I need a mobile lab.
Adam
I’d like to use it with a dsPIC33 for a datalogger project
Great idea Mats. Ideal for breadboarding microcontroller projects. Right now I’m working on a wireless sensor node – MSP430G2553 with 3.5mm jack socket interface to 1-wire and other sensors that connects to a 8-pin NRF24L01+ module. I intend to be sprinkling these around on my brewing kit and using them around the house for climate control.
Would use them for my breadboard AVR projects and various projects that make it past the breadboard. That 16MHz crystal would also work very well on my new atmega1284 which will be going into robot making use of the frame of an old RC HUMMV (it had a rechargeable battery holder and the motors and wheels needed already together, so why not?)
I have my eye on the 16MHz board with the idea of brake my project on more detachable modules.
I would just use it.
I am curious why you would need something like this. You can get crystal resonators with 0.1″ spacing that fit in breadboards that will effectively do the same thing.
http://shop.moderndevice.com/products/16-mhz-resonators
I understand that crystals are a touch more accurate but won’t you give up some accuracy placing the crystal on a PCB on a breadboard? Please don’t take this as criticism– just a question.
The breadboard tracks do offer some parasitic capacitance. There have been times when I couldn’t get a crystal with caps to work but a crystal on its own was fine.
i have a homemade pll dip breakout board. it would be good for the input.
I would use it with avr dev kit to swap in and out different speeds. And hook up the old oscope to see how it works :) Planing to take over the world.
Well, nothing particularly… It’s for breadboarding, so I’d use it any time a breadboard was used and I needed it. I’ve got a lot of projects in the pot brewing and as my daughter gets older, I’m finding more time to work on them. Of note, I’m building a weather station (and app) capable of providing data to wunderground, and in modular fasion to easily allow sensors to be added over time or replaced with improved versions. I’m also working on a toaster reflow controller with K-Type thermocouple, and a HID ‘Joystick’ USB device for connecting 32 inputs (per board) to X-Plane for interfacing real hardware with the sim.
Great little board would be good to use one in the next project
I’m building an Augmented Reality Shield and Car Diagnostic Shield, both which use crystals that are a pain in the ass to breadboard. Would love to simplify the process.
Wow, I was looking at these just today. I would love them for my MSF radio clock project. I would use one as a very accurate clock for my PIC32 in DIP28 and one for the 32.768kHz real time clock crystal.
I already have the radio decoding down but I need better crystals to make the real time clock more accurate to keep the time going when there is noise or signal loss from the receiver.
The display is a 70×14 pixel dot matrix display from an ~1980s arcade game which I reverse engineered.
Thanks
i want one :D
I have been thinking about making a function generator that is essentially the inverse of the Logic shrimp. Use a cheap micro to fill up serial SRAMs with whatever pattern is requested, then just continuously clock them to read out into an D2A converter.
This is a great idea – with more and more crystals coming in the SMT surface mount package, this makes it easy to proto-board anything that requires a crystal.
I would like to use it for my current project
LED flashlight
Useful as a ham radio frequency standard to calibrate receivers.
Overclock my retrocomputer?
I would stash it back for an upcoming hi alt balloon project already on the scheduling panel…
I would love to have one
Hello to all the dangerousprototypes’s team
Here is my story …
I’m using a 7.3728 MHz HC-49 crystal with 22pF disc ceramic load capacitors. I’m doing this on a breadboard, but I’ve had prior experience with using a breadboard for this and it has worked well, so I’m hoping this is not the problem. On the crystal, the following is written: “ACT Fo 7.3728SCA” and I’ve tracked the datasheet down to this one. The load capacitance is correct it seems – well within the specified 12pF to 32pF. I’m using with a PIC24FJ64GA002 microcontroller and the microcontroller is set to HSPLL mode, to generate a 29.4912MHz clock. The clock is a baud multiple, and it’s very important it’s stable. The expected clock is 7.3728 MHz within 50ppm, but the achieved clock is unstable and I can just about measure 20 MHz using my scope, but even that’s tricky because it won’t trigger well on such an unstable waveform.
I would be more than happy to test other frequency just to understand what going on …
That was my story
Have a nice day
Skappy
I am working on the idea of creating my own microcontroller boards, and this would be very handy to experiment with.