Table of Contents A difficult start The story so far… As part of my work on reverse-engineering eInk price tags I ran into an interesting problem.
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Using Xilinx Open Source FPGA Toolchain on Docker Containers
In this post I’ll explore a bit the Open Source toolchain for Xilinx Series 7 FPGAs and will focus the Artix 7. The post will detail how to run the complete flow using Docker containers avoiding local toolchain installs and homogenizing the process for most platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows).
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Guitar Hero Robot Actually Shreds
Once a popular craze, most of the public has sold or stashed away their plastic video game instruments and forgotten the likes of Guitar Hero and Rockband. Having never been quite satisfied with his scores, [Nick O’Hara] set out to create a robot that could play a Guitar Hero controller.
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PVC Racing Cars
A university student who played with the PVC Water Pipe Tron Controller at a party said “That’s OK… but I like to play driving games”.
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Multi-weekend project intro: Putting the fear of AirPlay into Yamaha YAS-207 soundbar
Recently I bought a “Yamaha YAS-207” soundbar to replace our old and clunky 2.1 PC-speaker based sound solution for TV and AirPlay. I’m happy with the sound itself. However —
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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract
This post or I should say a series of posts, is a result of a kinda (not yet, as it turns out :>) failed Amiga 1000 Phoenix upgrade project that I did write about some time ago. It all looks like this is going to be my longest and most complicated project.
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ASCII Schematic Diagrams
We wondered recently about those crude ASCII schematics you see in some documentation — are there any dedicated schematic-focused tools to draw them, or are they just hand-crafted using various ASCII-art drawing tools? To our surprise, there is such a tool.
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Easy USB‑C Power For All Your Devices
[Mansour Behabadi] wanted to harness the high power capability of USB-C using as simple a hardware design as possible. After some research and experimental prototyping, he designed the fpx — an easy to use USB‑C power delivery board.
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This Pineapple Keyboard Is The Bomb
Now why didn’t we think of this? While building a dactyl manuform — a semi-ergonomic split keyboard — [dapperrogue] had the life-changing epiphany that keyboards can be any shape or size, as long as there is room for wiring and a microcontroller inside.
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Getting Started
tmk_keyboard with some useful features for Atmel AVR controllers, and more specifically, the OLKB product line, the ErgoDox EZ keyboard, and the Clueboard product line. It has also been ported to ARM chips using ChibiOS. You can use it to power your own hand-wired or custom keyboard PCB.
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