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  • 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…

  • How To Control A LCD TFT Using Your FPGA (Or Someone Else´s)?

    Not long ago, we published some articles about controlling different kinds of displays, using your FPGA. On a VGA screen, on a small LCD screen, on a PSP LCD or even for the old, but nasty-analog-signaled NTSC system. And today, we share with you another great tutorial on how to control a LCD TFT, that…

  • How To Use Your FPGA To Display Things On A PSP Screen!

    Welcome back to the track of using your FPGA to display things. Today´s tutorial will teach you how to use the LCD screen of a PSP to display colour graphics from an FPGA. The main goal is to show three colour stripes on the screen but the author goes beyond that and adds a quick…

  • Remember Playing Cowboys With A “Hand” Gun? Now It´s a Video Game

    Thanks to the work developed by a group of students at Cornell University, all you would need to do is to paint the tip of your finger in Red. This is not to fake that you are shooting that much that your finger is burning. This is because their project is based on this color.…

  • Here is How The Dark Side Got Started With Their Robot Army!

    Nowadays, you may be fed up of Star Wars jokes, baits and so on. I am sorry, I could not resist the temptation. Anyway, this time, at least, was not a joke nor a lie. Today´s article brings the real truth to you. If you want to build your own robot, as simple as you…

  • Ever dreamt of playing Tetris on a wall of your room? Now it´s possible!

    Remember all those days looking at a small screen following the tiny cubes falling down quicker and quicker…? Never again! Those days are gone and for good. We are not saying that you no longer have to play Tetris, just that you don´t have to do it on a small screen. Today´s tutorial will teach…

  • New Tutorial – PWM outputs on Papilio FPGA

    In this tutorial you will learn how to use the PWM outputs of your Papilio FPGA board. For this particular step-by-step article, we have connected a button LED Wing to Wing slot AL. Basically you will be able to write a sketch that uses a PWM on any pin. We have only used 6 pins…