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Motion-Tracking Project Lets You Be A Robot Puppeteer
Embedded Systems Design student Annie Dai recently finished up her final project for the Spring 2013 semester at Cornell University. Based on an Altera DE-2 FPGA board, her project was designed to track realtime movement in a subject’s upper body (head, torso, right & left arms) using the DE-2, a VGA monitor, and a video…
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Controlling An LCD Module With Your FPGA
By way of FPGA 4 Fun, we have a great and easy project on driving a one line/ 16- character (HD44780 chip-based) LCD display using your FPGA. This project works with HD44780-compatible modules also. The project page covers controlling the LCD module by utilizing a 7-bit design, an 8-bit design, as well as some code…
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Chess-Playing FPGAs @ Design West 2014
Warren Miller of All Programmable Planet has a plan to turn his research and writings about teaching an FPGA to play chess into a real thing – at next year’s Design West event. His plan is to have “an extravaganza at Design West 2014 in which electronic “Robot” chess players can compete on the big…
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VGA Out Hacked Into Virtual Boy Console Using FPGA
Here’s a new one. Retro game console enthusiast and hardware hacker Furrtek created a great hack with his Nintendo Virtual Boy 3D console. He knew the Virtual Boy didn’t have a stock video output so he decided to use his Altera DE-1 FPGA board to make his own. One problem though – he wanted to…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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