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HDMI Splitter is also a Decrypter
Esar’s Ambilight clone that runs on the Papilio Pro is an awesome project, I still have one on my desk waiting to be tested. One of the challenges is HDCP protected content – but with this awesome hack it is no longer an issue! His amazing custom Ambilight clone got profiled here, and someone asked…
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PyroEDU
Pyroedu has posted a video course on FPGA’s. Since it based on Altera FPGA some of the portions are not 100% applicable, but there is a bunch of good basic FPGA info in the lessons. It makes a nice addition to hamster intro to FPGA document, especially for those who learn better from watching a…
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Would you like a free Zynq-based Digilent ZYBO dev board? Win one over at the ARM Connected Community
It is not Open Hardware as per se, but it is FREE!! If you have a good project they pick get yourself a free ZYBO Zync ARM/FPGA board. The digilent ZYBO board based on the Xilinx Zynq SoC is a full-featured development board with 512Mbytes of DDR3 SDRAM, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, MicroSD slot, OTG…
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FloPoCo: Very interesting custom floating point and vhdl math function generator
I found this interesting library/tool for doing floating point functionality on FPGA that looks designed specifically for FPGA’s, not general purpose CPU’s. Might be great if you needed to add some floating point calcuations to a circuit or a ZPUino sketch more efficiently than the arduino software libraries. Circuits computing just right… FPGA Arithmetic the…
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Simple Tools for Low Level ZPUino Hacking
Monsonite is working on a visual debugger for the ZPUino that utilizes the new VGA peripheral that Alvie recently released. Monsonite’s debugger shows the disassembled machine language and memory regions to help you debug your ZPUino code. He’s put one weekend of work into this so far and plans to keep going with more…
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Spin Brushless DC Motors Slowly
Here is some good reference material on spinning Brushless DC motors that should be applicable to the Papilio. We would just need to add some sensors to spin the motors faster… I used specialized triple half bridge IC L6234 (~ 8$). You can make the same spending less money (but more time) with MOSFET…
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USB PIDs For All – New USB PID Source.
Making an Open Source Hardware device and need a USB VID/PID but can’t afford $5K? Well now there is a new option for getting your own PID for free! Now, someone has finally done the sensible thing and put an unused USB VID to work. pid.codes obtained the rights to a single VID – 0x1209…
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CastAR Teardown
If you are like us you have been following Jerri Ellsworth’s castAR project with a sense of awe and anticipation. It’s an amazing project made with an FPGA and we can’t wait to see one of these things in person. Until that happens we found a great teardown video that shows all the pretty insides…
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