NU-Xtal packages winner
Today we announce the winner of the NU-Xtal packages! These boards are quartz crystal and load capacitance breakouts, designed for breadboard prototyping by Mats. There were lots of great ideas, thanks for your submissions.
Congratulations to Kevin, his idea for a function generator scored him the NU-Xtal 20 Mhz package:
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.
Congratulations to Garrett, his idea for a ATMEGA1284 powered robot scored him the NU-Xtal 16 Mhz package:
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?)
And last but not least congratulations to Callen, his honesty gets him one NU-Xtal unpopulated PCB:
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.
Thank you to Mats Engstrom for the free swag.
Thank you for participating, there were a bunch of great ideas. As always feel free to share your projects in the forum.
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Congrats to all who won :D
Amazing news, though I’m still a bit new to this site, so how do I retrieve it?
All three winners will get a 20MHz, a 16MHz and a empty board each… I hope that they will function well and can be useful in your hacking endeavours.
I’ll drop them in the mail Tuesday next week when I get back home from Bangkok.
This is the first time I’m on the “sending end” of a DP competition sending out swag. (Does that make me a Swagger or a Swagee?) so I’m not sure how I’ll get your addresses. Maybe Lynn or Filip at DP will get your info and send it to me?
I guess an swagger is collecting swag, and swagee are the giver of swag.. ;)
Wonder if i should steal some of your design on my next pcb run..
But an Employer are giving jobs. And the Employee is receiving a job…. :-)
All the PAW stuffs are OSHW, so please steal and improve.
Hm, you are actually correct on that, so I guess it’s the opposite then.
I have to redo my pcb adapters, created one for SDIP32 do DIP, but managed to use 0.05″ instead of 0.07″ pitch :(, so after chinese newyears, going to try again..
I dub thee: “Mats the swagarator”, to native english speakers this leaves no doubt as to the direction of the swag ejection. Of course when Ragnarok comes you will be called upon by the people to do your thing.