Flashing your Firmware
What is flashing your board and how do you do it?
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My Favorite Product — the Arty Board
Josh’s favorite product is one of our newest.
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UDP vs TCP
What are the differences between UDP and TCP?
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What is the Internet of Things?
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Running the MPIDE HTTP Server Example
Want to run the MPIDE HTTP server example? Learn how with Josh’s guide.
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Can We Make a WF32 Using Other chipKIT Products?
The chipKIT uC32 is a prototyping board that a form factor allowing the attachment of our chipKIT shields. The WF32 is a prototyping board that has a built-in WiFI module. So if the WF32 has a WiFi module, and the uC32+WiFi Shield has a Wifi Module, then the uC32 + WiFi = WF32 right? Well… not quite.
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Back to School: Uploading Code using MPIDE
School is here for some and almost here for others. That means it’s time for an introduction to using MPIDE.
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Getting Ready for School – Making the Most of Digilent Resources
One of the most important things in school is being able to find the resources you need to be successful. Digilent can help you find those tools!
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Using the PmodCON3
Josh explains some good uses for the PmodCON3!
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NI Week: The Expo Floor (and Other Cool Things)
From Flying Dart Boards to Self-Balancing Copters, Josh takes us through some of his favorite demos from this years NI Week.
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NIWeek 2015: LabVIEW Home Automation Demo with the chipKIT WF32
Check out the LabVIEW Home Automation Demo from this year’s NI Week!
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Building the Jousting Robots
Whats the only thing cooler than robots equipped with weapons?? TWO robots with weapons. Jousting.
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Controlling Your chipKIT WF32 through a Network
The chipKIT WF32 was the first Digilent board to have an on-board Wifi MRF24. By using the SD card port and WiFi module, we can host our own server from the WF32. We’re going to check out a demo where you can control the WF32 by using your computer.
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Open-Source SRK+Line Robot
Not wanting to be outdone by his big brother, the SRK+Line Following Robot now has brand new open-source robot parts.
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The Open Source Robot Initiative
We love robots so much, we want you guys to help us make more awesome robots. You can already check out some of the items tagged Digilent from Repables and Thingiverse, and there are a bunch of great robot components already. But we want your help to make more robot parts for everyone to use.
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Using Digilent Adept
Digilent Adept is a light-weight program that allows users to quickly load .bit files onto your FPGA chip. The Power of Adept is in its simplicity and speed.
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Open-Source MRK+Line robot
In keeping with our open-source initiative, the Digilent Marketing Team used open-source parts to build a robot. This is an altered version of the MRK Line Robot, which uses only open-source components.
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Logic Gates
The very basis of computers is binary. In electronics everything can be boiled down to 1s and 0s. Logic gates are digital circuits that take one or more binary inputs and produce a binary output. You can check out the basis of logic with Boolean Algebra.
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Tweeting Webcam Photos with a ZYBO
A project that I’ve been working on (and off) for while has been the titular tweeting webcam photos with a ZYBO.
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Demystifiying The Linux Kernel
You’ll often hear about the “Linux kernel”, but what does that mean? Today we’re going to go about explaining what the Linux kernel is in terms that people can understand.
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Chips and Silicon
Printed circuit boards (PCB) are the basis for most electronics that we use the modern era. The power of the PCB is that it allows electronic components to be attached and connected more easily than with the alternatives (wire wrap and point-to-point).
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We hear words like gigabyte (GB) and terabyte thrown around a lot, but what can we actually do with that much memory? At the most basic level of computing, we have bits, which are going to be either a 1 or 0. A byte is 8 bits. We’re going to represent a byte as a dot.
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What is a LiveUSB?
If you’ve ever dual-booted a computer, you’ve probably used a LiveUSB. A LiveUSB contains an entire operating system, which can be booted from the USB. While I’ll only used LiveUSBs to install Linux, they can be used with other types of operating systems (like Windows To Go and Macs).
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The (Ultimate) ZYBOt Guide
Back in March, we released a blog post announcing the ZYBOt. There was a set of Instructables and a video showing what the ZYBOt is all about. If you check those out, you can see that the ZYBOt is remote-controlled and has a video feed that can be displayed to a computer. The ZYBOt is a great project for people that want to dive into working with FPGAs and Linux.
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Integrated Circuits in Digilent Products
We’re going to look at integrated circuits, specifically the integrated circuit in the chipKIT MAX32.
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