A while ago, I got an LED matrix from SparkFun, and soon had it rigged up on a breadboard:

It could scroll any text I wanted, specified as a char array in the code. I had it working fairly well and decided to make a PCB for it...

A month ...

Mother's Day was coming up and I'd just got the hang of making PCBs at home, along with a new Dremel that could cut and drill them.
Making some kind of project seemed the obvious answer. I took inspiration from an Instructable on a similar subject here, but ...

My first dremel arrived today (the 300), along with a drill press stand for it, a multichuck and some cutting disks.

I had a quick go with it on some PCBs and it drills through them like a hot butter knife through butter: there's no resistance at all, the ...

I find it can be useful to look over other people's tool kits and see what neat things you may be missing out on - I've certainly found out about a few things this way!

The main tools I currently use, in order of use, are:

1. Soldering iron: I ...

First, a caveat: this page is mainly going to focused on UK suppliers, so if you're in the US you'd be better off checking out a page like this [ladyada.net].

With that out the way, here are the suppliers I've used in the UK:

• Rapid Electronics ...

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