I was desperate for something to read during lockdown and found in my bookcase an IEEE report on Speech Recognition from the late 1970s. Could an Arduino Nano do the same as a computer from that era?
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Someone recently posted on Xilinx’s forums that they were having issues with their design. Apparently, the design was hanging on startup. When I asked if they had an AXI-lite slave within it, they shared their design with me. It looked an awful lot like Xilinx’s AXI-lite template design.
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There are many good, modern solutions for reading data off old floppy discs and drives. Perhaps the best is the Greaseweazle: it’s capable, open source, open hardware, inexpensive and has a vibrant and friendly community behind it.
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These days, if you want to code a game for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, it’s about as easy as downloading an assembler, firing up Notepad, and running the ROMs you cook up in any one of a variety of emulators.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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