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  • 9 Steps Away Of Playing Pong With Your FPGA!

    Hello all FPGA lovers. Today we have got a fantastic step-by-step article that will teach you how to implement the Pong Game in your FPGA in 9 simple steps, so you can play with it as if you were using a computer. This project is a purely VHDL coding one, and guess what? All the…

  • Use Your FPGA To Build Your Own Music Box

    Today´s article presents an university project in which the author chose to increase his knowledge about FPGA´s by creating a Music Box. As with any other university work, this study is very well organized and there are chapters for literature review, scope of project and so forth. Luckily for you, I will ease you the…

  • How To Create You Own Design Displayed On A RGB LED Matrix With Your FPGA

    Today´s article presents a fantastic video tutorial about designing and building your own FPGA RGB LED matrix to display anything you want. Nowadays it´s pretty easy to buy an RGB LED matrix on internet, so you only need to connect your FPGA to it and build and implement your own design. So, you better follow…

  • Building a multi-peripheral controller with a GPAK4

      In today´s article the author describes a project developed by one of the prize winners. What prize winners? What prize at all? Ok, let´s rewind a little here. The author talks wonders about Silego´s GPAK chip and so those guys were very excited about the interest generated that they decided to give the author…

  • How To Build Your Own USB Blaster Compatible Programmer

    This post brings you a nice alternative if you need a usb programmer and don´t want to spend the huge amount brands charge nor buy a cheap one from China and wait for the long shipping. Or, in other words, if you just want to build it yourself and have fun. It´s a very simple…

  • How To Build Your Own Giant Digit Grid

    Today´s post presents a great article for almost everybody. Whether you like real making from scratch, writing code or just working with an FPGA, keep reading. Somehow the author was fascinated by LED digit displays at some point in his life and so he decided he had to build his own giant LED digit grid.…

  • 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…