{"id":19487,"date":"2017-06-09T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=19487"},"modified":"2021-06-11T09:34:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:34:01","slug":"improve-your-summer-project-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/improve-your-summer-project-functionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve Your Summer Project Functionality!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun is shining and the birds are here to stay, as we welcome summertime with new opportunities for\u00a0makerspace projects!\u00a0While some lucky makers and hobbyists\u00a0might have their seasonal projects planned and ready-to-go, others\u00a0(like myself) may soon begin to feel\u00a0overwhelmed by all of the free time and project-potential. With so many projects to choose from, and so little time to complete them all (#WinterIsComing), it can be helpful to have assistance when attempting to choose the perfect product to reduce early summer anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, we&#8217;re here to help with our newest\u00a0promotion. For a limited time we are sending a <strong>FREE\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/chipkit-pmod-shield-adapter-board-for-uno-r3-standard-to-pmod\/\">Pmod Shield<\/a><\/strong> with any chipKIT\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/chipkit-uc32-basic-microcontroller-board-with-uno-r3-headers\/\">uC32<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/arty-artix-7-fpga-development-board-for-makers-and-hobbyists\/\">Arty<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-oledrgb-96-x-64-rgb-oled-display-with-16-bit-color-resolution\/\">PmodOLEDrgb<\/a>\u00a0purchase to help improve your summer project potential!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/chipkit-pmod-shield-adapter-board-for-uno-r3-standard-to-pmod\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20537\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17013528555_81041db5d8_z-600x369.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" data-wp-pid=\"20537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17013528555_81041db5d8_z-600x369.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/17013528555_81041db5d8_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/chipkit-pmod-shield-adapter-board-for-uno-r3-standard-to-pmod\/\">Pmod Shield<\/a> you can\u00a0attach additional circuitry to your <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/chipkit-uc32-basic-microcontroller-board-with-uno-r3-headers\/\">uC32<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/arty-artix-7-fpga-development-board-for-makers-and-hobbyists\/\">Arty<\/a>\u00a0and access\u00a0connectors that allow the use of most\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-modules\/\">Digilent peripheral modules<\/a>. Simply connect the shield (as shown in the image above) and gain access to five 2&#215;6 Pmod connectors for greater\u00a0project\u00a0functionality. This board will appear in your cart when purchasing any uC32, Arty, or PmodOLEDrgb and is not limited to one per purchase. So jump into microcontrollers or explore FPGA\u00a0this summer (get started by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/creating-and-programming-our-first-fpga-project-part-1-getting-the-extra-files-ready\/\">following James as he befriends\u00a0the Arty<\/a>) and receive one free Pmod Shield with every qualifying product purchased!<\/p>\n<p>Remember to visit us\u00a0on the <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.digilent.com\/\">Digilent Forum<\/a> for help with technical questions (<a href=\"https:\/\/forum.digilent.com\/forum\/16-project-vault\/\">or\u00a0summer project ideas<\/a>) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/social-hub\/\">share your project success with us on social media<\/a>.\u00a0We can&#8217;t wait to hear about your summer projects and see what you create!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/chipkit-pmod-shield-adapter-board-for-uno-r3-standard-to-pmod\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20507\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pmod-Shield-Promo-600x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" data-wp-pid=\"20507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pmod-Shield-Promo-600x200.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pmod-Shield-Promo-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pmod-Shield-Promo-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pmod-Shield-Promo-800x267.jpg 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pmod-Shield-Promo.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-19487 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='19487' data-nonce='65c8d68fa9' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-19487 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-19487 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='19487' data-nonce='65c8d68fa9' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-19487 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-19487 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connect your potential with a summer project with the help of our Pmod Shield promotion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":20917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4483],"class_list":["post-19487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia","category-products"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Pmod-Shield-Promo-600x200.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4483,"user_id":37,"is_guest":0,"slug":"quinnsullivan","display_name":"Quinn Sullivan","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/215dce3bd1420d6a78ee4888156d9c6aecad8fc0f3a8dba45316bf4e00c5a38b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19487"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=19487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}