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  • How to Whack a Mole with your FPGA, but Not Physically!

    Good day FPGA Enthusiasts! FPGAs can be used for a versatile set of applications from real time engineering solutions to building funny games. Today’s post is going to focus on the latter where we build yet another game concept using a FPGA board (you may need to adapt your own). The game in consideration is…

  • 9 Easy Steps to Build a Photosensitive Synth Machine with FPGA

    Hello FPGA lovers! Engineering traditional synth machines using development platforms like Arduino and FPGAs is becoming quite the trend now. Today’s post however takes a twist from the traditional synth machines where sounds are produced by either flicking switches or pressing buttons. The synth machine under discussion is a photosensitive synth machine which uses LDRs…

  • Visualize Music with a Muscled FPGA

    The Zybo Board is one of the most powerful tools in FPGA and this is because it is FPGA combined with an ARM processor that widens the spectrum of possibilities with FPGA. Today’s post is yet another dive into Zybo’s possibilities and in this project a visualization of audio signals or music will be accomplished.…

  • Build Your Own Globe of Persistence with FPGA

    Hey there FPGA lovers! The human eye is far from being perfect, and this imperfection helps us in coming up with a lot of ideas and products (take the television for example!). Today’s post exploits the Human eye’s persistence of vision to build a globe of persistence using FPGA. These globes can be used to…

  • How to Build an Arcade Obstacle Avoidance Game Using FPGA

    Hello FPGA innovators! Remember the arcade obstacle avoidance game where blocks of pixels fall on you and you steer clear of them moving left or right? Today’s project attempts to re engineer the same game using a VGA and FPGA. Here, a pseudo random code is used to generate obstacles that fall down and buttons…

  • Save on Your Electricity Bill with Your FPGA

    Greetings FPGA innovators! Ever had the problem of forgetting to switch off the room lights on your way out? Do you have frequent guests who are not as mindful as you when it comes to power saving? In today’s project we see how to build a simple gadget with the FPGA to switch off your…

  • Remotely Control your TV with Your FPGA

    Hello FPGA enthusiasts! The FPGA is truly a tool that can stretch the horizon of possibility and in today’s project we will find out how an FPGA can be used as an universal remote control. Ever had the problem of falling asleep while watching TV? Not anymore! The Universal Timed remote with FPGA is a…

  • [DIY] How to Make a FPGA-based Electric Composer

    Hello FPGA enthusiasts! Today’s project takes sound production using FPGA to another level. The project under focus is building an electric keyboard/composer using FPGA. The keyboard acts as a song tune composer where a network of switches on the FPGA board is connected in precedence such that while a switch is on, the corresponding note…