Aaaand We’re Off! The Pmod Racing Ruler Roars into Action!
The thrilling outcome to the saga of the Pmod Racing Ruler! Did it measure up? Or did some “speed bumps” prove too much for our dragster?
Author: James Colvin
Levitating a Ping Pong Ball – Obliterating All Obstacles
The final chapter of James’ foray into the world of magic!
Levitating a Ping Pong Ball – First Serious Attempt
James and the Giant Fight with Gravity: The second installment of the saga!
Levitating a Ping Pong Ball – First Steps
Join James in the first step of his quest to levitate a ping pong ball!
Power Bricking
The PowerBricks are indeed powerful.
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Prototyping a Project
What’s the best way to prototype a project?
My Favorite Digilent Product — the James edition
James tells us all about his favorite Digilent product.
Getting Into the Electronics World – My Story
James shares his personal journey into the exciting world of electronics.
Debouncing Circuits
Pushbuttons are an inherent source of problems inside of sensitive circuits. Ideally, we like to think that when a button is pressed it is either “pressed” or “not pressed” without any sort of funny business. Unfortunately, as pushbuttons are a mechanical component, a lack of funny business simply isn’t going to be the case.
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Creating Custom Sounds
A little while ago, you likely saw the post that I did on my Color Invaders project. It’s a lot of fun to play as is, but it was suggested that the game could be made even better if there were some sound effects included as well. I got it done with a few tweaks…
Color/Colour Invaders!
I was recently inspired to try out by Hamster’s own Colour Invaders project. As the name suggests, this project is similar in design to the classic Space Invaders game or (more similarly) the Casio’s Number Invaders on the calculator. The idea behind the game is that different colored “invaders” start marching down the LED strip and you have to fire missiles that match the color of the oncoming invader. Naturally, as you successfully destroy more of the attackers, the faster they come towards your base. Here is what you need to get started.
Working with the Digilent Forum
As most of you know, we have our own Forum where anybody can go post questions and projects involving Digilent products: FPGAs, microcontrollers, any of our scopes, National Instruments products like the LabVIEW Home Bundle, Pmods, programming solutions, you name it. With this wide variety of products and an even wider variety of potential questions, the Forum can be a little daunting to navigate. This post will help first-time Digilent Forum users get the best experience out of the Digilent Forum.
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