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  • Remember Playing Cowboys With A “Hand” Gun? Now It´s a Video Game

    Thanks to the work developed by a group of students at Cornell University, all you would need to do is to paint the tip of your finger in Red. This is not to fake that you are shooting that much that your finger is burning. This is because their project is based on this color.…

  • Here is How The Dark Side Got Started With Their Robot Army!

    Nowadays, you may be fed up of Star Wars jokes, baits and so on. I am sorry, I could not resist the temptation. Anyway, this time, at least, was not a joke nor a lie. Today´s article brings the real truth to you. If you want to build your own robot, as simple as you…

  • Ever dreamt of playing Tetris on a wall of your room? Now it´s possible!

    Remember all those days looking at a small screen following the tiny cubes falling down quicker and quicker…? Never again! Those days are gone and for good. We are not saying that you no longer have to play Tetris, just that you don´t have to do it on a small screen. Today´s tutorial will teach…

  • Flying high with Zynq

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFyeFDzbJR4 Open source enthusiast? Drone enthusiast as well? FPGA fan? Rejoice! The first Unmanned Air Vehicule combining all those technologies has recently been announced. It’s powered by a Xilinx Zynq processor running ArduPilot, and its source code is planned to be released. The team behind the project used a DJI F550 airframe and plans to test on…

  • Want a Logic Analyzer?? Then just get a Papilio!

    https://youtu.be/pqCo8yAhLhQ Not long ago we published an article about using an Arduino UNO as a logic analyzer. As it couldn´t be otherwise, you can also do the same with a Papilio. And guess what? The Papilio-based logic analyzer is more powerful. No hype, just real numbers. You can achieve 32 channels, at 200 MHz, while…

  • New Tutorial – PWM outputs on Papilio FPGA

    In this tutorial you will learn how to use the PWM outputs of your Papilio FPGA board. For this particular step-by-step article, we have connected a button LED Wing to Wing slot AL. Basically you will be able to write a sketch that uses a PWM on any pin. We have only used 6 pins…

  • Do you have an Arduino UNO? Then you have a logic analyzer!

    This tutorial shows, step-by-step, how to turn your Arduino UNO into a 6 channel SUMP. This logic analyzer is able to sample signals with a speed varying between 4 MHz and 10 kHz. Best results are obtained below 1 MHz. Above this mark, there is too much of a lag between the trigger detection and…

  • Program your FPGAs and CPLDs at zero cost with the BBB

    Today, we present a thorough tutorial on how to take advantage of the BeagleBone Black to implement programmable logic. This is a very easy procedure. It is browser-based, and you just need to drag and drop your programming files into the beagle, wait a few seconds…and done! That simple! The recommendation is to start with…