View On Meetup.com Date Friday, 03 Nov 2017 7:30 PM What are the initial steps in launching a Kickstarter? The bulk of the work should happen prior to launch. But how do you give your message a best-shot? Come find out, as we discuss a real case in point, through the community developed Fipsy FPGA…
DetailsView On Meetup.com Date Friday, 27 Oct 2017 7:30 PM Be prepared for some ghoulish fun, with software, LEDs and some Maker fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIv8H7WPfQw We will work on the above project, which blinks LEDs and plays creepy Halloween music, and can sit inside a Jack-O’-Lantern. We are following these build Guides: https://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/blog/2012/10/18/pumpkin-pi-project-for-halloween https://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/blog/2012/10/25/a-second-helping-of-pumpkin-pi To get…
DetailsView On Meetup.com Date Friday, 13 Oct 2017 7:30 PM It is extremely important that we finish this FGPA project this month, so we can launch the Fipsy Kickstarter before winter. This session we will try to work at the actual ‘merger’ area, where we will try and turn multiple messages coming in at once,…
DetailsView On Meetup.com Date Friday, 06 Oct 2017 7:30 PM Trust me when I say, learning git is hard but using it is easy. Once you know git (if you have good teachers like us, it can be learned well enough in a day), you will see what all the hub-bub is about. Version control…
DetailsView On Meetup.com Date Friday, 29 Sep 2017 7:30 PM Continuing on past UART communications, we will be looking at establishing a Full message buffer, as part of our learning-as-we-go FPGA project: building a MIDI signal merger. At the end of our last meeting, we established an initial block diagram as follows: I’ve found that Lattice…
DetailsView On Meetup.com Date Friday, 22 Sep 2017 7:00 PM Are your DIY projects tied to the electrical grid, or worse disposable BATTERIES?? Have you heard of this thing called free renewable energy? Do you want in? Get some useful pointers on powering your project with solar panels. All power management has certain considerations. Understanding…
DetailsView On Meetup.com Date Friday, 15 Sep 2017 7:30 PM We are continuing to building a MIDI signal merger. At the end of our last meeting, we established an initial block diagram as follows: I’ve found that Lattice Includes an example on UART. Some details of that can be found here: https://www.mocomakers.com/fpga-midi-signal-merger/ We need to…
DetailsView On Meetup.com Date Friday, 08 Sep 2017 7:30 PM We are building an MIDI signal merger. MIDI signals are serialized. This project adds an example use case for the Fipsy FPGA our community is developing for Kickstarter. We are looking to document our process, so others can reproduce our project, and learn FGPAs. “MIDI…
DetailsView On Meetup.com Date Friday, 01 Sep 2017 7:30 PM At our last meeting we had successful signal passing from our retro pi to our video game emulator. However, some elements where ‘off’ and need calibration (movements were backward or thresholds are wrong). Let’s fix these issues, and spend extra time developing FPGA projects (I2C…
DetailsView On Meetup.com Date Friday, 18 Aug 2017 7:30 PM We are going to pair flex sensors with Emulation Station (on a Retro Pi), to be able to play video games with your fingers (all of them). A flex sensor: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8606 I believe we are also working with sensors at each finger tip, for even…
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