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  • How To: Use Your FPGA For Precision DC Motor Control

    Here is a simple little project that you can use to control a DC motor with some pretty tight precision from your FPGA board. This could be useful for some of your projects! Chris over at Pyroelectro has all the tutorial goodness you’ll need to get one of these up and running. He gives a…

  • 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…

  • Quick & Easy – Getting Started With GitHub

    GitHub is a giant online storehouse for archiving and sharing code.  We’ve got a bunch of code available on GitHub for many items of Gadget Factory interest that we’re sure you’ll find useful in your endeavors: Gadget Factory top-level repository Gadget Factory Wing PCB designs Papilio Arcade source code AVR8 source code We also came across…

  • VHDL Communication With A PS/ 2 Keyboard

    Thanks to reader Hamster, who submitted this peachy Wiki page!  Hamster has written some VHDL code for communicating with a PS/ 2 keyboard that can be found on the wiki!  Useful stuff: “It has lots of features: It does full start bit, stopbit and parity check … deglitches the signals, by requiring a state change of longer than…

  • How To: Designing An FPGA Based Graphics Controller For HD

    By way of EE Times, here’s a lengthy, if not highly informative nitty-gritty on designing an HD FPGA graphics controller.           “Using faster memories and embedded hardware blocks let us to design more complex and more powerful designs – designs which just a year or so ago would have been hard to implement without using…