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  • 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…

  • Protect Your Home With a FPGA-based Alarm System

    Welcome back again FPGA addicts! Today we have a very interesting and useful project for you: Build your own alarm system with your FPGA. This work was carried out by a group of students and it could perfectly serve as a baseline for any alarm system. The project is developed in 6 easy steps. All…

  • Quick Guide: 4 Easy Steps To Play Snake on Your FPGA

    Hello FPGA lovers. I am sure you are going to love today´s post: How to implement Snake Game on your FPGA. Maybe some of you are too young to remember this everlasting game that has been popular generation after generation on a wide variety of formats. And as it couldn´t be less, Snake Game deserves…

  • How To Control A Joystick With Your FPGA

    Fantastic tutorial here today about how to add and control a joystick, using your FPGA. This project is based upon a demo written in Verilog. However, the author used a Basys 3 FPGA board and thus she needed to transfer the Verilog code over to Vivado. The hardware needed for this project is pretty simple,…

  • 9 Steps Away Of Playing Pong With Your FPGA!

    Hello all FPGA lovers. Today we have got a fantastic step-by-step article that will teach you how to implement the Pong Game in your FPGA in 9 simple steps, so you can play with it as if you were using a computer. This project is a purely VHDL coding one, and guess what? All the…

  • 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 Build Your Own USB Blaster Compatible Programmer

    This post brings you a nice alternative if you need a usb programmer and don´t want to spend the huge amount brands charge nor buy a cheap one from China and wait for the long shipping. Or, in other words, if you just want to build it yourself and have fun. It´s a very simple…