{"id":11179,"date":"2015-11-11T09:15:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=11179"},"modified":"2021-06-16T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T22:48:13","slug":"my-favorite-digilent-product-the-james-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/my-favorite-digilent-product-the-james-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Digilent Product — the James edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to the Digilent Blog!<\/p>\n

Many of you will likely expect my favorite product would be some sort of Pmod and normally you would be correct. However, there are just so many Pmods I found myself having difficulty choosing just one to be my favorite. It was around that time while I was considering the Pmods that they all had something in common when I was working with them individually: the chipKIT Starter Kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Digilent’s chipKIT Starter Kit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This kit has nearly everything that I have ever wanted to use with a Pmod: the wiring options, op-amps, LEDs for signal testing, resistors, motors, shift registers, you name it. Many times a Pmod, such as the PmodENC<\/a> or the PmodDA4<\/a>\u00a0simply work better in conjunction with other components. But where do you find all of these components?<\/p>\n

\"Digilent's<\/a>
Digilent’s PmodDA4 with extra components.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Digilent's<\/a>
Digilent’s PmodENC with extra components.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You guessed it; the chipKIT Starter Kit. I can’t count the number of times it has had exactly\u00a0the item that I was looking for. This is\u00a0why the chipKIT Starter Kit is my favorite Digilent product.<\/p>\n

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