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The Basics You’ll Need To Start Hacking With FPGAs
It’s well known that FPGAs can be difficult to get started with, to the point of being downright intimidating. We’re always on the lookout for information that can help make the learning curve a little less… curvy. Today we’ve got an easy-to-follow information compilation for understanding FPGAs and how they work, courtesy of FPGAhacker. Let’s just call it some…
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FPGA-Powered Visual MIDI Music Composition Tool
Here’s a great FPGA final project from Cornell University student Joao Diogo Faloao. It is a visual MIDI-based musical composition tool running on an Altera DE-2 FPGA board. This one’s going to appeal to a very small subset of people – those trained to read and write musical notation, and who also have a pretty…
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Robotic Arm Controlled In Realtime Using FPGA
FPGA and robotics enthusiast ZaIoNeL has created a grasping, clamping robotic arm that has six degrees of freedom alongside a spherical wrist for maximum dexterity. On the hardware front, he’s using a keyboard, two Altera FPGAs, two Xbee modules, power supply, and of course the robotic arm. The robo-arm project uses a couple of Altera FPGA boards…
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Implementing SPI & I2C Interfaces On Papilio One
Papilio user and tech blogger Duane Benson from All Programmable Planet has a new article on his ongoing quest to create his own robotic tele-presence avatar. This one is about implementing SPI and I2C interfaces on his Papilio One for the project. Duane’s avatar will need a series of motors and sensor controls for various…
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Jack Gasset To Give Tech Tour Of Papilio @ Design West 2013
Today we’ve got a very special engagement to let you all in on. The man behind the curtain, Gadget Factory founder Jack Gassett will be giving a tech talk about the Papilio platform at the upcoming industry convention Design West Expo 2013 out in Silicon Valley, California. The Design West Expo is an industry-leading event,…
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RF-Controlled FPGA ‘Land Rover’ Project
University student Naresh Singh Dobal created an FPGA-based, RF-controllable rover vehicle for his Digital Systems Design class, as his final project last year. Naresh is using a Xilinx Spartan 3AN FPGA dev board for the brains of the system, and has done all the coding in VHDL. The whole project was made and programmed pretty…
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New Products Available In The GF Store
First up, we have a new seven-segment, eight-digit LED display to show you what’s happening with your numbers! Hook up this LED Display to your Papilio or other dev boards and do prototype projects with a counter, clock feature, display the values from sensors, or whatever else you’re doing to those poor numbers. Quick specs:…
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Rock Out With This FPGA MIDI Drumkit Project
LUMS SSE Electrical Engineering undergrads Haris Usmani and Bilal Mahmood have created a fully functional, low-latency MIDI drumkit project using an FPGA board for their Digital Systems Design class. The kit is comprised of four piezo sensors with ADCs, one Digilent Nexys-2 Xilinx Spartan-3E FPGA, Serial to MIDI software and a laptop with the EZDrummer…
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