Meet the First-Time Makers of Maker Faire Bay Area ‘24
Here’s a taste of a few of our favorite first-time makers, and what drives them to create what they do.
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17 Fun Projects for New Boards from Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Micro:Bit, and More
When a new board drops, makers around the planet immediately start hacking new projects with it. Here are 17 fun projects to try on fresh hardware.
Tracking The NYC Subway Using FPGAs
Using tech to do the important things, like avoid waiting around a subway station for 20 minutes
A Brief History of FPGA
In the easy-to-follow book Make: FPGAs — Turning Software into Hardware with Eight Fun & Easy DIY Projects, author David Romano details the ins-and-outs of the hyper-configurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA) boards and explains how — and why — to get started with these advanced devices. The following is excerpted from his book, available at […]
XLR8 Project Blends FPGA Speed with Arduino Coding
The XLR8 is an FPGA based board that looks and feels like an Arduino Uno. But not all is what it seems on the surface.
Snickerdoodle Dev Board Boasts ARM Processor with Onboard FPGA
The team at krtkl is crowdfunding Snickerdoodle, a hybrid development board that has an ARM application processor with an onboard FPGA.
What’s an FPGA?
In a recent episode of the very popular EEVblog by Dave Jones, the electrical engineer walks through the fundamentals of the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). He explains how FPGAs work, how they’re different from microcontrollers, and their advantages and disadvantages. Myself, I’m still learning this stuff, so rather than trying to stumble through my […]
