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  • 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…

  • How To Add A LCD To Your FPGA And Control What It Displays!

    This great tutorial brings you all the information you need to add a screen to your FPGA.  You will learn about how to choose the appropriate parts for this project, the schematics and as it couldn´t be otherwise, you will also get to know the theory. Mainly, this article explains the theory behind the control…

  • How Building a DPLCM To Learn About FPGAs Turned To Be A Possible Business

    First of all, yes, what is a DPLCM? At least I had to look this up. Now, I can tell you that DPLCM stands for Digital Audio Peak Level and Correlation Meter. At this point we have covered the most difficult part. This tutorial is so well explained, the author even tells you why he…

  • How to Display Video On A Screen With Only One Wire

    In today´s article we bring you a great tutorial about NTSC. For those who don´t know this, NTSC is another video standard, like VGA, very popular in the Americas and Eastern Asia. However, unlike VGA, NTSC only uses 1 signal wire! The principal behind that is quite complex. Thus, the example developed on the article…

  • Do you feel like a hanging-down bat? Let´s build something to find out!

    Today´s article will teach you how to create your own FPGA-based tilt sensing device. It is one of those really thorough tutorials where almost nothing is left to your imagination but the infinite applications you may develop. Cool right? This project is based around the DEo-Nano board and its built-in tilt sensor. I am pretty…

  • 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…

  • Want a Logic Analyzer?? Then just get a Papilio!

    https://youtu.be/pqCo8yAhLhQ Not long ago we published an article about using an Arduino UNO as a logic analyzer. As it couldn´t be otherwise, you can also do the same with a Papilio. And guess what? The Papilio-based logic analyzer is more powerful. No hype, just real numbers. You can achieve 32 channels, at 200 MHz, while…