{"id":6307,"date":"2015-04-02T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2021-06-16T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:31:13","slug":"throwback-thursday-digilab-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/throwback-thursday-digilab-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Digilab Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, we did a throwback that included\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/index.php\/throwback-thursday-randomness-around-digilent\/\">D2XL<\/a>. And now we can take a look back at the original Digilab I! It&#8217;s one of the first boards we made (circa 2001), and it&#8217;s always interesting to see how far we&#8217;ve come.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6314\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-I-board.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6314\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-I-board-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"The  Digilab I displayed on a colleague's wall.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-I-board-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-I-board-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-I-board-225x169.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Digilab I displayed on a colleague&#8217;s wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the others in the Digilab series was the Digilab Breadboard. It was sent out for production, but the wrong files were sent. We ended up with 500 Digilab boards that were essentially just breadboards. Gene Apperson still uses them as just that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6312\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Digilab-breadboard\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard-225x169.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard-1200x900-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6313\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard-circuit-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6313 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard-circuit-1-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Digilab-breadboard-circuit (1)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard-circuit-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard-circuit-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard-circuit-1-225x169.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Apperson&#8217;s circuit on one of the Digilab Breadboards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These boards have certainly been around a long time. Tune in next week for more TBT!<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-6307 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='6307' data-nonce='a7290e5e40' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-6307 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-6307 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='6307' data-nonce='a7290e5e40' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-6307 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-6307 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, we did a throwback that included the D2XL. And now we can take a look back at the original Digilab I! It&#8217;s one of the first boards we made (circa 2001), and it&#8217;s always interesting to see how far we&#8217;ve come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1553],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4464],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-digilent"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Digilab-breadboard.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4464,"user_id":7,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amber_mear","display_name":"Amber Mear","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0fc56ab4035f79884675bde2a948e84c1d14dd33b730b4c142dde6f1a962395?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\/6307","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=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}