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  • New Update For Hamster’s I3C2 Programmable I2C Controller

    Mike Field/Hamster has got an important update to the last article we posted (Intelligent I2C Controller Project) that we thought we’d share. You can view the full rundown in two parts over at All Programmable Planet, and there are also project resources via Hamsterworks and on the Gadget Factory forums. Check out what’s new since…

  • Intelligent I2C Controller Project

    The Hamster man, Mike Field has a new project up that is an intelligent I2C controller. It is a small programmable controller that makes it quick and easy to talk to I2C devices. The controller has a single I2C bus, 16 binary inputs, 16 binary outputs and writes I2C data to 32 8-bit registers. The…

  • Tutorial: Adding Two Extra Serial Ports To ZPUino

    Hey there folks! There have been several questions on the forums recently about how to add some additional serial ports on the ZPUino, so Jack has put up a great tutorial over on the ZPUino documentation regarding this subject. I popped the video in above so you can take a look-see! Here are your resources:…

  • Video: David Crane On Designing Pitfall For Atari 2600

    We found a great vid of Pitfall designer David Crane giving a talk about designing and writing the Activision-published game for the Atari 2600 all the way back in the early 1980s. This video is from the 2011 GDC (Game Developers Conference). In it, David gives a great deconstruction of the development process for writing…

  • Hand-Detecting ‘Anti-Tetris’ Game Project

    Ahh, springtime. The sun is out, there’s a fresh breeze blowing, the scent of blooming flowers is in the air, birds are chirping, etc. etc. And the final FPGA projects from the spring 2013 semester keep coming in! Today we’ve got a great one from Cornell University student Tian Gao, built using an Altera DE2…

  • How To: Use Your FPGA For Precision DC Motor Control

    Here is a simple little project that you can use to control a DC motor with some pretty tight precision from your FPGA board. This could be useful for some of your projects! Chris over at Pyroelectro has all the tutorial goodness you’ll need to get one of these up and running. He gives a…

  • FPGA Plays Super Mario Bros Just Like A Real Human Does

    It’s no secret that we love FPGAs and we love games. When we see a cool project that combines both of these, it’s kinda hard NOT to post it here on the blog. Advanced Microcontroller Design students Jeremy Blum, Sima Mitra, and Jason Wright have been hard at work on their open source, FPGA-based, Super…

  • FPGA Piano Hero Game Uses Camera Touchscreen

    More Cornell University student FPGA projects coming your way! These guys come up with some great implementations of FPGA technology. This time around we have Embedded Systems Design students Chonggang Li and Ran Hu who built a video-camera based touchscreen system using an Altera DE2 FPGA and a Piano Hero game to interact with. In…