Snake Game with Score Tracking in LabVIEW
In preparation for NI week, we decided to resurrect our snake game with a new twist. Score tracking and high scores in LabVIEW!
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.
Whats the only thing cooler than robots equipped with weapons?? TWO robots with weapons. Jousting.
Games all around! What makes a fun game for the engineer in your life? A programmable maze based on an FPGA. This Instructable was made by RedCirkle to provide a …
Long for the knights of old, but with the technology of new? Well trifle no longer, for in preparation for NI week, Josh and I decided to create jousting robots!
Music is one of the more delightful aspects of being human. Listening to it provides such a thrill, but creating it — that takes real work. But what if there were a way to simplify that? Of course there is!
During the summer, gardens abound — so many people are keeping an eye out for their sun-ripened, home-grown tomatoes or for that lovely hydrangea that’s just the right shade of blue. But summers are also a very hectic time. So how do you maintain that garden and make sure it receives the care it needs? One of the projects created for the Digilent Design Contest 2015 is a smart irrigation system intended to work with an Android device to see to it your garden gets the moisture it craves.
Is your inability to accurately identify coin cell batteries negatively impacting your life and affecting your loved ones? Nate is here to help!
Noise exists all around us. But it is usually a too low a volume for us to appreciate with the human ear. What if there was a way to capture and display it in a way that was both acoustically pleasing and visually appeasing? Thanks to MirceaDabacan, there is.
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 …
At events like ASEE, there is a lot of conversation around tools, curriculum, and new ways to deliver technical content. All of those things matter. But one student poster I …