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Hand-Tracking Pong Game On FPGA
Cornell University students Hanting Lu and Kedari Elety have made an FPGA-based, hand-tracking Pong game for their final class project this year. They’ve got an HTC 231x CCD camera feeding video data to their Altera DE-2 FPGA, which is processing the hand motion data and using it to control a game of Pong. You can…
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Bitcoin Mining On A Repurposed FPGA
Here’s a cool hack. Taylor Killian was on Reddit one day and came across a post that gave him an idea. Long story short, he found an HDMI color processing board (make/model: eeColor Color3) on Newegg for *free* after rebate. This device just happens to contain an FPGA – an Altera Cyclone 4, 30K logic element…
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Papilio Pro Breathes New Life Into Old Laptop Display
Papilio Pro user James Glanville recently posted a great project that he’s been working on, over at the Gadget Factory forums. He was nice enough to share his code and some photos for the project, in which he has got his Papilio Pro hooked up to an old laptop LCD display that he had sitting around the workshop.…
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FPGA Audio Visualizer Project
Embedded Systems Design student Zhemao and his class group have been working on an FPGA FFT audio visualizer for their final project. Their design was implemented entirely in VHDL on an Altera DE2 board, the results of which are all bouncy and blue in the above vid. Basically, it’s a hardware audio player that reads…
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Check Out The BeagleBone Black And A… Bacon Cape?!
A couple of weeks ago while we were getting our geek on at Design West, we were fortunate enough to meet and chat with a couple of the guys from CircuitCo – makers of the BeagleBone platform. They gave us a BeagleBone Black and a Bacon Cape(!) to check out and hack around with. We’ll post…
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Listen: Jack’s Presentation From Design West 2013
Happy Friday, gadgetheads! We’ve got an audio treat for you today, from last week’s industry event Design West Expo 2013 in San Jose. Our founder and CEO Jack Gassett gave his first presentation ever, on Designing an Open Source Arduino/FPGA Development Board. There were lots of people at the show that we recognized from the forums…
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Hardware And The Bitcoin Goldrush
Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency, best described as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Bitcoin is known for its volatility – values of the currency can fluctuate wildly in a relatively short period of time. But there’s a virtual goldrush going on these days for the stuff, and the tools used to get at the…
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Turbografx-16 Game Console Recreated On FPGA
Remember the Turbografx-16 (PC Engine in Japan) video game console from the early 1990s? I used to love playing Bonk’s Adventure on that thing. FPGA hacker and nostalgic gamer Gregory decided to recreate the Turbografx-16 hardware within an FPGA and it seems to be working pretty well! Aah, brings me back. For this project, it looks…
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