The 100 Minute Robot Build
Jay finds himself in a tricky, time-dependent situation… lets see if his rapid-robot building was successful!
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chipKIT Wi-FIRE Takes the Stage!
A little about the chipKIT Wi-FIRE and surrounding educational materials!
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TBT: Shields or Pmods?
What is the best way to increase the functionality of your microcontroller? Should you use a shield or a Pmod?
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Remotely Control FM Radio with a chipKIT uC32 and Basic I/O Shield
Recently, a user of our products posted a tutorial about using a chipKIT uC32 to remotely control an FM Radio. We always love to see our users creating cool projects and try to give space here not only to projects created by us at Digilent but also by you the user. This project does require the use of multiple components and could be a bit overwhelming to a beginner, but we encourage you to try it out if you so choose!
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Shields vs Pmods: Good vs Better?
Today we’re going to compare two different ways of increasing the functionality of a system board: Pmods and shields. Those of you have that have been following the Digilent Blog know that Pmods are Digilent’s series of peripheral modules with 6-12 pins that can easily be connected to appropriate pins on a system board to provide extra functionality and include audio amplifiers, GPS receivers, USB to UART interface, seven-segment displays, accelerometers, H-bridges with input feedback, analog-to-digital converters, and much more. For the rest of you who have been in this sector of the electronics industry, you know that shields are a type of board that you can plug directly on top of your microcontroller in a nice pin-to-pin fashion for expanded functionality. Although you might suspect which of these two items I prefer, we’ll check out the advantages of both of them.
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Christmas Wishlists!
Here at Digilent, a few of us got together and started wondering — what do we want for Christmas? Especially from the Digilent catalogue? And what would we make with those products? We went ahead and asked several people around Digilent for their wishlists, check them out!
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