Hackaday (unofficial) June 15, 2023 4:00pm Iran’s Military Quantum Claim: It’s Only 99.4% Ridiculous #news #rants #science #fpga #quantumemulation #quantumprocessing #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Iran’s Military Quantum Claim: It’s Only 99.4% Ridiculous When Iran recently announced a quantum processing algorithm (Google translation) that would help its military to detect water surface disturbances, the instant response from Western media was one o…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 24, 2023 6:00am Commodore 64 Upgrade in Modern Package #retrocomputing #6502 #8bit #commanderx16 #commodore #fpga #modern #nes #vera #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Commodore 64 Upgrade In Modern Package While the Commodore 64 was an immensely popular computer for its time, and still remains a strong favorite within the retrocomputing community, there’s a reason we’re not using modern C…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 23, 2023 12:00am Bringing The PIO To The FPGA #fpga #pio #raspberrypipico #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Bringing The PIO To The FPGA We’ve seen some pretty incredible hacks using the Raspberry Pi 2040. However, one of the most exciting bits of hardware onboard is the Programmable I/O (PIO). Not content with it just being a…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 27, 2023 7:00pm Op Amp Challenge: What’s Your Monitor’s Delay? #hardware #fpga #monitordelay #opampchallenge #opamp #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Op Amp Challenge: What’s Your Monitor’s Delay? In the days of CRT displays, the precise synchronization between source and display meant that the time between a video line appearing at the input and the dot writing it to the screen was constant…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 17, 2023 9:00am Interlaken Want to Connect All the Chips #fpga #microcontrollers #bus #i2c #interlaken #serial #spi #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Interlaken Want To Connect All The Chips One of the problems with designing things on a chip is finding a good way to talk to the outside world. You may not design chips yourself, but you care because you want to connect your circuits …
𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 March 20, 2023 5:25am Why I greatly prefer open source libre software, which is many magnitudes less bloat. I get that FPGA's have features, but 225GB for an install... #xylinx #development #fpga
Hackaday (unofficial) February 14, 2023 7:00am An Open Hardware Eurorack Compatible Audio FPGA Front End #fpga #musicalhacks #ak4619n #audio #dsp #eurorack #pmod #synthesiser #vcvrack #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 An Open Hardware Eurorack Compatible Audio FPGA Front End [Sebastian Holzapfel] has designed an audio frontend (eurorack-pmod) for FPGA-based audio applications, which is designed to fit into a standard Eurorack enclosure. The project, released under CERN…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 6, 2023 8:00pm Arduino Does SDI Video with FPGA Help #arduinohacks #fpga #videohacks #arduino #arduinomkrvidor4000 #sdi #serialdigitalinterface #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Arduino Does SDI Video With FPGA Help If you are running video around your home theater, you probably use HDMI. If you are running it in a professional studio, however, you are probably using SDI, Serial Digital Interface. [Chris Brown…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 28, 2023 1:00pm Original Controller Ports in Custom Case Means Retro Gaming In Style #computerhacks #games #3dprinted #console #controllers #finishing #fpga #postprocessing #retrogaming #vintagegaming #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Original Controller Ports In Custom Case Means Retro Gaming In Style Some careful measuring and a little extra effort can be all that separates what looks like a hack job from a slick end product, and that is apparent in [Eric Sorensen]’s classy retrogaming ri…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 13, 2023 1:00pm Fixing an HP 54542C with an FPGA and VGA Display #fpga #repairhacks #hp #hp54540c #oscilloscope #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Fixing An HP 54542C With An FPGA And VGA Display Although the HP 54542C oscilloscope and its siblings are getting on in years, they’re still very useful today. Unfortunately, as some of the first oscilloscopes to switch from a CRT display t…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 31, 2022 1:00pm Want To Play With FPGAs? Use Your Pico! #fpga #raspberrypi #emulation #fpgaemulation #pipico #raspberrypipico #rp2040 #verilator #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Want To Play With FPGAs? Use Your Pico! Ever want to play with an FPGA, but don’t have the hardware? Now, if you have one of those ever-abundant Pi Picos, you can start playing with Verilog without getting an FPGA board. The FakePG…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 4, 2022 7:00am A Cycle-Accurate Intel 8088 Core For All Your Retro PC Needs #retrocomputing #8086 #8088 #fpga #x86 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Cycle-Accurate Intel 8088 Core For All Your Retro PC Needs A problem faced increasingly by retrocomputer enthusiasts everywhere is the supply of chips. Once a piece of silicon goes out of production its demand can be supplied for a time by old stock and se…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 13, 2022 10:00pm Emulate Any ISA Card With A Raspberry Pi and an FPGA #retrocomputing #emulation #fpga #isabus #soundcard #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Emulate Any ISA Card With A Raspberry Pi And An FPGA One of the reasons the IBM PC platform became the dominant standard for desktop PCs back in the mid-1980s was its open hardware design, based around what would later be called the ISA bus. Any manu…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 6, 2022 9:00am Here’s How The Precursor Protects Your Privacy #fpga #handheldshacks #securityhacks #betrusted #bunnie #bunniehuang #bunniestudios #precursor #trust #trustedcomputing #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Here’s How The Precursor Protects Your Privacy At some point, you will find yourself asking – is my device actually running the code I expect it to? [bunnie] aka [Andrew Huang] is passionate about making devices you can fundamentally, dee…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 12, 2022 12:00am iCEBlaster: A Drag’n’Drop Bitstream Loader For iCE40 #fpga #ice40 #lattice #usbmassstorage #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 ICEBlaster: A Drag’n’Drop Bitstream Loader For ICE40 The iCE40 series of FPGAs gets a fair bit of coverage on these pages, largely due to its accessibility (thanks to huge efforts in reverse engineering and open tool chains) and likely also due to La…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 9, 2022 9:00am When Your Logic Analyzer Can’t Tell Good and Bad Signals Apart #repairhacks #toolhacks #fpga #la104 #logicanalyser #logicanalyzer #miniware #proprietary #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 When Your Logic Analyzer Can’t Tell Good And Bad Signals Apart [Avian] has picked up a Miniware LA104 – a small battery-powered logic analyzer with builtin protocol decoders. Such analyzers are handy tools for when you quickly need to see what really is …
Hackaday (unofficial) June 24, 2022 9:00am Scratch-Built Industrial Camera’s Modular Design Really Stacks Up #digitalcamerashacks #cmount #csi #fpga #mipi #sonyimx219 #usb30 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Scratch-Built Industrial Camera’s Modular Design Really Stacks Up The news here isn’t so much that [Guarav Singh] built this high-quality industrial digital camera from scratch, but it’s in the way it was accomplished. That plus the amount of informat…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 12, 2022 9:00pm An Open Toolchain For Sipeed Tang Nano FPGAs #fpga #softwarehacks #fpgatoolchain #gowin #nextpnr #sipeed #yosys #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 An Open Toolchain For Sipeed Tang Nano FPGAs [Sevan Janiyan] shares their research on putting an open FPGA toolchain together. Specifically, this is an open toolchain for the Sipeed Nano Tang FPGAs, which are relatively cheap offerings by Sip…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 10, 2022 6:00am Will MiSTer Fool You Into Learning FPGAs? #fpga #retrocomputing #arcade #learning #video #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Will MiSTer Fool You Into Learning FPGAs? What’s the killer app for FPGAs? For some people, the allure is the ultra-high data throughput for parallelizable tasks, which can enable some pretty gnarly projects. But what if you’re…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 7, 2022 6:00pm Remoticon 2021 // Rob Weinstein Builds an HP-35 from the Patent Up #cons #retrocomputing #reverseengineering #2021hackadayremoticon #calculator #fpga #hewlettpackard #hp35 #retrocalculator #reverseengineer #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Remoticon 2021 // Rob Weinstein Builds An HP-35 From The Patent Up Fifty years ago, Hewlett-Packard introduced the first handheld scientific calculator, the HP-35. It was quite the engineering feat, since equivalent machines of the day were bulky desktop affairs, …