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  • Groove to Your 8 Step Synthesizer Rhythms with FPGA

    Hello FPGA lovers! Today’s project will be a special one that will pique the interest of FPGA lovers and music makers alike! The project is about how to build an 8 step synthesizer with an FPGA board! The 8 step Synthesizer is a set of 8 switches with a time line that flows from left…

  • Get Ready to Bop It! With FPGA

    Hello FPGA enthusiasts! Today we have a close enough version of the popular Bop It! Game. For those unfamiliar with what a Bop It! Game is, I will tell you that it is practically a quick reflex based game that has a set of voice commands that give you instructions to perform tasks with the…

  • How To Make Simon Says Game With Your FPGA

    https://youtu.be/SXT9aOCPFqQ Hi again FPGA people! Today I have another game for you to implement using your FPGA, Simon Says for 2 players. I know it´s a pretty old game but I promise you that it´s a very interesting project. In this project you will have to make use of your hand skills both for coding…

  • 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…

  • Use Your FPGA To Build A Password Cracker!

      Here we have a project developed by a German guy who wanted to get a 100 EUR device that could do 10 million key guesses per second. The main point of this design is to use multiple crypt cores in order to reduce the time needed to crack a UNIX Crypt. A modified DES…