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  • All You Need Is 2 Wires And 50 Bucks To Get Video Out Of Your Arduino With Mesa-Video

    In this post we want to introduce you a great article that describe the latest projects from Black Mesa Labs. These guys wanted to create a new approach to add video support to your projects with Arduino and other low cost microcontrollers. So the idea of Mesa-Video was born. Mesa-Video is a fully open-source device…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • You´ve got the Power in your hand or, better said, in the Wheel of your mouse!

      https://youtu.be/cWH4kVPpL3Y Today´s article will teach you how to build a system to control big power. You can use it to manage a simple light bulb or a 0.5 kW motor without having to change a single line of code. The key of this design is the implementation of a widely-used jellybean wheel from a…

  • Spit out VGA with non-programmable logic chips

    Bitbanging a VGA can be a tough task due to the timing requirements. Nevertheless Sven gave it a go and not only he bitbanged a VGA on an arduino, but he managed to configured an array of 7400 logic chips to output a VGA signal. Consisting of two parts, his project first consisted in outputting a…

  • Synth secrets revealed!

    Synthesizer fans are usually fond of programming them. In the following article, you’ll find out about the author’s approach to program every instrument at a time. Moreover, when reproducing the complex sounds of a particular instrument, the author breaks up the formulas into several articles and details how he got the results. Via hackaday.com

  • Vintage BBC computer gets FPGA buddies

    We still have some retro for the old-school enthusiasts. Many of you knew about the BBC Microcomputer System. It was an innovative machine created during the 1980s. It is possible to link the BBC Micro to an FPGA board, following specific designs, via a tube interface. You can find out more about the BBC Micro in the video,…

  • MYSTERY FPGA CIRCUIT FEELS THE PRESSURE

    In order to interact with an FPGA board, a user usually presses a button. Is that the only way to interact? Not so sure. A video from Clifford Wolf shows us otherwise. It’s quite intriguing! The Verilog implements a simple ring oscillator (basically an inverter with its output tied to its input). Via Hackaday