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  • Controlling Stepper Motors with Joysticks using FPGA

    Greetings FPGA innovators! Stepper motors can be an integral part of projects that have a dimension of mobility to them. Be it rovers, robots, drones or claw machines, controlling stepper motors with joysticks is an integral part and FPGAs accomplish speed control easily. Today’s post is about using a FPGA and a joystick to control…

  • Control a Servo Motor with Your FPGA

    Hello FPGA lovers! Great stuff here today. I have come across an article that gives you great details about how to control a RC Servo with a FPGA. There many versions for RC servos but basically all of them use a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal to control their position. Servos should receive 5 V…

  • Build Your Own Vacuum Robot With Your FPGA!

    This is the first part of the series for building up your own robot, that is fully capable of swallowing up the dust of your room. The first thing you need to build is a fully functional robot that moves independently around your room and that can stop at every obstacle. Well, you have it.…

  • 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…