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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…

  • Stuff A Lot Of Brute Power On Your FPGA To Crack A MD5 Password

    In today´s article we present a project developed by students of the University of Illinois. This guy and his partner used the parallel power of the FPGA to create a hardware system which basically consisted of 16 MD5 cracking units-which were able to produce more than 700 million hashes per minute-, a keyboard control system…

  • How To Control A LCD TFT Using Your FPGA (Or Someone Else´s)?

    Not long ago, we published some articles about controlling different kinds of displays, using your FPGA. On a VGA screen, on a small LCD screen, on a PSP LCD or even for the old, but nasty-analog-signaled NTSC system. And today, we share with you another great tutorial on how to control a LCD TFT, that…

  • Create A Particle Dynamics Simulator With Your FPGA

    Today´s article presents a very detailed project of a Cornell student who wanted to play with Pyro Sand Game. He did not want his laptop to overheat due to high power consumption, the fan to go crazy or the screen to freeze up once a lot of particles were on screen. To solve this he…

  • How To Use Your FPGA To Display Things On A PSP Screen!

    Welcome back to the track of using your FPGA to display things. Today´s tutorial will teach you how to use the LCD screen of a PSP to display colour graphics from an FPGA. The main goal is to show three colour stripes on the screen but the author goes beyond that and adds a quick…

  • Use Your FPGA To Build A Password Cracker!

      Here we have a project developed by a German guy who wanted to get a 100 EUR device that could do 10 million key guesses per second. The main point of this design is to use multiple crypt cores in order to reduce the time needed to crack a UNIX Crypt. A modified DES…

  • How To Implement The Old Oberon System On A Modern FPGA

    In today´s article we bring you an experiment carried out by Niklaus Wirth, a master of the Computer Science World. But this article goes beyond itself. It is much more than that because it is the introduction chapter for a thorough guide on how to implement the Oberon system, developed in the late 80´s on…

  • Build Your Own Vacuum Robot With Your FPGA!

    This is the first part of the series for building up your own robot, that is fully capable of swallowing up the dust of your room. The first thing you need to build is a fully functional robot that moves independently around your room and that can stop at every obstacle. Well, you have it.…