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FPGA Night (1 Oct, 7-10PM)
We will continue working with LCD monitors. The plan is to create a binary counter display that can display like a series of LEDs. We will start with one 8 bit vector and move on to showing multiple integers. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!!…
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FPGA Night (24 Sep, 7-10PM)
We will continue to work on VGA by creating a VHDL module that can run off of a variable timing (defined at time of creation) and then creating a package that defines a series of VGA timings that the new VHDL module can use. If time permits, we will start talking about ideas for displaying…
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FPGA Night (17 Sep, 7-10PM)
We will be continuing from last week’s VGA designs. There were problems with some people not being able to display anything on their monitors. After some tweaking of the timings, I think everything should be good to go. If you have a monitor with a VGA connection and can bring it, please do. We have…
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Unallocated Space’s 3rd Anniversary Party and Potluck
It’s that special time of the year again. No, not the holidays, but you’re close. It’s Unallocated Space’s 3rd Anniversary Party and Potluck. Oh Yeah! http://www.meetup.com/ticketing/ticket_printable/?event_id=139345512 Unallocated Space’s 3rd Anniversary Party and Potluck On Saturday, October 5th, 2013 from 12:00 noon to midnight, you and your guest are invited to join us to celebrate in…
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FPGA Night (10 Sep, 7-10PM)
We will be going over how to make an FPGA drive an LCD monitor. With any luck I will have DB15 (VGA) breakout cables made before class. For those of you who need a breakout cable, please let me know as soon as possible. If you have a monitor with VGA connector(s) and can bring…
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FPGA Night (20 Aug, 7-10PM)
We will continue working with Serial/EPP data transfers. Here are the goals based on dev board type: Mojo: 1. Create a FIFO to buffer data being written to the serial (from FPGA to computer) 2. Write data as quickly as possible to the FIFO until it is full, then wait for the FIFO to become…
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Arduino Night (16 Aug, 7-10PM)
This Arduino Night will cover using 4 wire touch screens. These are touch screens from some old Garmin GPS units that were cannibalized. Everyone will need to have Python installed on their laptop in order to see a plot of the points from the touch pad. Additionally, you will need to have a file called…
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FPGA Night (13 Aug, 7-10PM)
We will continue working on sending data from the FPGA to a laptop. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! We will not have time to wait for the install process to complete (it usually takes 15-30 minutes). Check out http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.html/content/xilinx/en/downloadNav/design-tools.html and download the ISE Design…
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Arduino Night (26 July, 7-10PM)
We will be covering using Python (pyserial) to communicate with an Arduino. This will include sending data back and forth as well as turning pins on and off via serial. Please ensure your laptop has BOTH Python and pyserial installed. Verify that pyserial is installed by typing ‘import serial’ in the Python interactive prompt. If…
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Arduino Night (19 July, 7-10PM)
This will be a do-over from last week. Word did not get out in time for most people, so we’re going to cover shift registers again. We will be looking at using shift registers with Arduino to control LEDs, and if possible, 7 segment displays. Required Items 1. Arduino & USB cable 2. Breadboard &…
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