FPGAngst
I’ve spent the past few days getting familiar with my Xilinx Spartan 3A Starter Kit, and so far, it’s not going well. I’d thought I was pretty competent with the basics of digital electronics, and the concepts of HDL programming…
Year 2009
Goodbye BMOW, and a Contest
It’s a bittersweet day today. After 18 months of development, occupying the top of my desk and the majority of my spare time, BMOW 1 has been officially retired to the closet. I packed up the case, packed up the…
Uzebox, Take 2
It’s done. Yes, it cost twice as much money and 100X as much time as just buying one from Adafruit or Sparkfun, but I’ve finished my home-made Uzebox. Notable features vs. the “stock” Uzebox: vertical mount mini-stereo jack for audio…
Care Package
After reading about BMOW on Slashdot last week, Jim George offered up some Augat wire-wrap boards and old-school ICs that were sitting around gathering dust. His care package arrived today, just in time for a weekend of tinkering. There are…
FillRect
OK, time to get back to 3D Graphics Thingy! 3D graphics rendering, implemented in hardware. Here we go. Starting right now. Any time now. 1, 2, 3, go. Getting ready, this is it, here we go. OK, really, going to…
Aftermath
Photo by Joe Pankow Oh ye gods! Crazy, nutty, insane. The past few days have been among the strangest of my life. I think I’ve had my 15 minutes of fame and then some. First there was the article about…
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