{"id":4572,"date":"2015-01-28T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:23:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:23:46","slug":"generating-high-frequency-radio-signals-out-of-a-vga-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/generating-high-frequency-radio-signals-out-of-a-vga-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Generating High-Frequency Radio Signals Out of a VGA Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at our forums, we have a lot of great projects that both Digilent employees and users have contributed! One of the members of our user community and a regular contributor to the forum, <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.digilent.com\/index.php?\/user\/35-hamster\/\">hamster<\/a>, used the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/Products\/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,1288&amp;Prod=BASYS3\">Basys 3<\/a> to generate <a href=\"http:\/\/hamsterworks.co.nz\/mediawiki\/index.php\/DDS_via_a_VGA_port\">high-frequency radio signals from its VGA (video graphics array) port<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4831\" style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hamster-dds-vga-output-signals.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4831\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hamster-dds-vga-output-signals-417x600.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the output signals being measured in the project.\" width=\"417\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hamster-dds-vga-output-signals-417x600.png 417w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hamster-dds-vga-output-signals-156x225.png 156w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hamster-dds-vga-output-signals.png 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of the output signals being measured in the project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to see someone contributing with such great content. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.digilent.com\/index.php?\/topic\/30-can-you-generate-hf-rf-signals-out-of-a-vga-port\/\">his project<\/a> and others like it at the <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.digilent.com\/index.php?\/forum\/16-project-vault\/\">Project Vault<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-4572 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='4572' data-nonce='ec2a3b7dac' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-4572 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-4572 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='4572' data-nonce='ec2a3b7dac' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-4572 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-4572 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at our forums, we have a lot of great projects that both Digilent employees and users have contributed! One of the members of our user community and a regular contributor to the forum, hamster, used the Basys 3 to generate high-frequency radio signals from its VGA (video graphics array) port. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1563],"tags":[36],"ppma_author":[4464],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide","tag-xilinx"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/hamster-dds-vga-output-signals.png","authors":[{"term_id":4464,"user_id":7,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amber_mear","display_name":"Amber Mear","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/766b0adee766c4cbe4e5ae38ab97be11?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Mear","last_name_2":"","first_name":"Amber","first_name_2":"","job_title":"","description":"I was the Digilent blog editor, and now I'm a contributor. 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Outside of work, I can be found watching Netflix with my cat, working on an art project, or trying to find new, delicious local foods."}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}