As you may be aware if you follow the blog closely, I’ve been working on building the claw machine. The claw machine is one of those infuriating devices that camps in …
What’s better than building your own Animatronic Tentacle? Building your own LUNGING Animatronic Tentacle. Whether your intent is to petrify your co-workers or profess your undying love, this is the project for …
Use a Basys 3 and PmodJSTK to control a stepper motor.
This tutorial walks you through controlling a stepper motor with an FPGA.
What’s the best way to prototype a project?
Have you ever wondered how to get started using LabVIEW with your Arduino through USB? This tutorial by Instructables user Deyson should show you how. You could also use the PIC32 microcontroller …
Implementing tools in Verilog HDL on an FPGA.
When inclement weather is upon us, we try to think about how to efficiently heat or cool a room (and save money doing so). This small solar room temperature regulator …
Get back to doing projects with this finite state machine done with a Basys 3.
As long as you’re smarter than the door, you’ll be fine.
Stop shivering and get warm with these ideas.
Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a radio communication system that performs many traditional radio functions in software instead of dedicated hardware circuits. Tasks such as filtering, modulation, demodulation, signal generation, …
Most students do not struggle with equations. They struggle with understanding what those equations actually do. In many learning environments, students define a system, run a process, and then interpret …
If you’re choosing between an FPGA and a SoC, the real question is not which one is “better.” It’s which one fits the job in front of you. Here is …
You open a Verilog example, launch Vivado for the first time, or start reading for a digital design course, and one term keeps showing up: RTL. It usually appears as …
