Getting Started with Arty
Get started with the Arty Board!
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New FPGA Demo Project Format
We have recently begun a shift in the format of our FPGA demo projects!
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NI Week: Sights and Insights Inside the Austin City Limits
Participating in NI Week as a non-engineer.
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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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Create a Startup Application for Your myRIO
Learn how to create a startup application so that the myRIO runs your program when it turns on without having any other connections besides power.
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Designing a Trade Show Demo
As Digilent attends a number of tradeshows and conferences every year, such as NI Week, I decided to take a look at and share how we at Digilent prepare our own demos for an engaging experience.
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Installing Libraries in MPIDE
As you all probably already know, MPIDE is a programming environment that I, and many other people, use to program Digilent’s chipKIT line of microcontrollers. Well, along with the pre-loaded libraries and examples that you can find when you download MPIDE, you can also upload your own libraries.
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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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900 LED Display
So, who’s excited about ECEDHA? We here at Digilent wanted something big and flashy to amaze everyone, so we put this together. We carry weatherproof strips of the WS2812 addressable LEDs in 1m lengths with 30 LEDs on each strip, so what better way to grab your attention than to build a display with 30 strips!
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TFT LCD Display with PING Ultrasonic Sensor
A good display is hard to find. So when I came across the Adafruit’s 1.8″ 18-bit color TFT LCD display with microSD card breakout I couldn’t wait to get it working on our chipKIT boards.
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