Have you ever been intrigued by motion sensors? This Instructable by sebastiangiangu shows how this team designed and developed a gesture detecting engine for the Digilent Design Contest 2015.
Want an easy way to monitor energy consumption for your house? There’s an Instructable for that that uses the chipKIT WF32 and a few Pmods.
Tommy and Sam present their homemade FPGA audio looper!
Josh explains some good uses for the PmodCON3!
When was the last time you played Whack-a-Mole? There’s a newer, more technologically advanced version now…
How to use WaveForms software with your ZYBO board.
Welcome to the first expanded explanation post in our series on the ‘Components of an FPGA’. This post will describe the architecture of a configurable logic block (CLB) and the functionality this component serves within a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
In preparation for NI week, we decided to resurrect our snake game with a new twist. Score tracking and high scores in LabVIEW!
Heart racing in excitement for NI Week? Well now you can measure exactly how fast it is going, with a photoresistor heart rate sensor.
Looking for a quick electronic fix? Check out one of our awesome NI Week demos!
Once upon a time, the readers of the Digilent blog were given a brief history lesson on the field programmable gate array (FPGA), at the end of which you all …
FPGA or microcontroller? Do I have to choose? We’re here with some of the differences between the two and appropriate times to use each.
In industrial environments, unplanned downtime isn’t just inconvenient, it’s expensive. Equipment failures can halt production, compromise safety, and disrupt operations. While traditional maintenance strategies like reactive repair or scheduled servicing …
NI is excited to unveil the USRP B206mini-i, the newest addition to the Ettus USRP family. This compact, credit card-sized software-defined radio (SDR) delivers powerful RF capabilities in a low-cost, portable …
In modern engineering education, project-based learning (PBL) is transforming classrooms from theory-heavy lectures to hands-on, practical experiences. The Analog Discovery Studio Max (ADS Max) and its companion, the Canvas Max, …
Seven-segment displays are a classic tool in digital electronics, used to show numerical data in everything from clocks to calculators. At Digilent, we like to integrate these displays into our …
