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  • MYSTERY FPGA CIRCUIT FEELS THE PRESSURE

    In order to interact with an FPGA board, a user usually presses a button. Is that the only way to interact? Not so sure. A video from Clifford Wolf shows us otherwise. It’s quite intriguing! The Verilog implements a simple ring oscillator (basically an inverter with its output tied to its input). Via Hackaday

  • Litecoin Mining With FPGA – This Is Cool

    Is anyone keeping up with the newer Bitcoin successor, Litecoin? We wanted to provide some information for you about the newest peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and open source software project released under the MIT/X11 license. Yes, it’s completely open-source, and you can mine these little guys on your FPGA platform. Educate yourself a “bit” before we go…

  • Pi Store App Market Launches For Raspbrry Pi

    For anyone who didn’t already know, Raspberry Pi recently launched their own app store called the Pi Store.  The Pi Store runs as an X application under Raspbian, and allows users to download applications for the Raspberry Pi, as well as to upload their own content which can then be approved for release on the…

  • 8 channel USB Digital Signal Injector

    Here is an interesting project we found over at jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com the project is called Kidogo, it is an 8 channel USB Digital Signal Injector. Definitely worth a look: “Kidogo system consists with Signal Editor and USB interface module. Kidogo Player is the Signal Editor of the Kidogo system and it can support up to 512…

  • Bruce Perens Mentions Papilio And Bus Pirate In Linux Keynote Speech

    (Jump to 39:04 on the vid to hear Bruce mention Dangerous Prototypes Bus Pirate, and to 41:04 when he talks about our Papilio!) Open source guru Bruce Perens gave a keynote speech recently at the major 2012 Linux conference linux.conf.au just this past week in Ballarat, Australia.  If you’ve got an hour to spare, the whole video is certainly…