GPS
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FPGA Nixie Tube Speedometer = Steampunk Goodness
A Nixie tube speedometer for a vintage pickup truck – seems like the coolest combination ever, right? Check out the video above and you’ll see what I mean. For those who have never heard of a Nixie tube, it’s basically a numeric-display (there are also character-display variants) vacuum tube that works very similarly to a…
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8-Channel Homebrew GPS Receiver On FPGA
Andrew Holme has created a totally made-from-scratch GPS receiver that can track up to eight satellites, all powered by FPGA. Andrew’s creation has been in the cooker since early 2011, and he has been refining it ever since. Pictured above is the front-end, first mixer and IF amplifier of an experimental GPS receiver. The leftmost…
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Awesome Flying Video Camera Stabilzer Project Using Papilio
Papilio user Siou is hard at work on a killer project involving hardware and software image stabilization for a video camera “mounted to a flying machine.” The project is built around a Papilio 250K and uses a series of servo motors meant to correct the x, y, and z axes of rotation to stabilize the…
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8 digit frequency counter project quick update.
After designing a 8 digit frequency counter using a Dx display and a Papilio One board hamster finally got a Digilent GPS PMOD and completed the project by making a GPS referenced 100MHz frequency counter and everything is working as expected 🙂 Here is a picture of the GPS referenced 100MHz frequency counter in action: Dont…
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8 digit frequency counter using the Papilio One
Papilio user hamster designed a 8 digit frequency counter using his Dx display and he’s looking to get a GPS module to complete the project and make a GPS referenced 100MHz frequency counter. Here is a video of the frequency counter in action: . And here is a list of the parts needed to make…
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How to design a Homemade GPS Receiver
Have you ever thought about designing a GPS Receiver? It seems very complicated but not with this design we found at holmea.demon.co.uk, the article clearly explains how to make a homemade GPS receiver and we thought you guys would find it very useful. “…I was motivated to design this receiver after reading the work of Matjaž Vidmar, S53MV, who developed a GPS receiver from scratch,…
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FPGA Board Used To Parse Data From A GPS Module
This is a fresh little project we found over at The Carrier Frequency, for using an FPGA board to parse data from a GPS module. Definitely worth a look, we figured our readers would dig it as much as we did – there’s a lot of potential here. “This is a project that uses a…