“Is Pmod the Fastest Way to Model Your Prototype Since LEGO?” Article Review
What is the connection between Pmods and LEGO? Hint… it has to deal with the word “connections” itself!
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My H-Bridge Horror Story
In celebration of Halloween, Jay shares his scariest electronics story!
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Holy Carp, the Pmod STEP is Really Useful!
Jay illustrates some applications for the Pmod STEP.
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Industrial FPGA Usage
Do you like the best of both worlds? I mean, who doesn’t? Well, this project by azorp12 uses both FPGAs and microcontrollers to automate temperature and stirring rotational speed for a chemical …
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Smart Irrigation System
During the summer, gardens abound — so many people are keeping an eye out for their sun-ripened, home-grown tomatoes or for that lovely hydrangea that’s just the right shade of blue. But summers are also a very hectic time. So how do you maintain that garden and make sure it receives the care it needs? One of the projects created for the Digilent Design Contest 2015 is a smart irrigation system intended to work with an Android device to see to it your garden gets the moisture it craves.
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What Is an H-Bridge?
One of the most exciting things you can do with electronics besides blinking LEDs, is make things move. What’s the most common way to make things move? Motors. If you’ve done much with motor control, you’ve probably heard of H-bridges. But what exactly is an H-bridge?
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How to Use a Stepper Motor
There are motors everywhere in the world around us– in cars, printers, computers, washing machines, electric razors, you name it. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people (myself included up until very recently) that wouldn’t know what to do if they were handed a motor and told to run it. So I decided that I want to change that. Let’s learn to run a stepper motor!
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Digilent Pmods — Motor Output
As we continue on with our exploration of the Pmods, after checking out some of the Output Pmods like the DAC, Audio, and Visual Pmods, we find ourselves at the final set (at least for now) of output Pmods. These five Pmods all drive different types of motors including servo, DC, and stepper motors. Through these Pmods, you can get your project on the move, whether its a robot arm, a box monster, or a line-following robot.
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Digilent Pmods – an Introduction
What is a Pmod? What does it take to become a Pmod? How did the Pmods come to be in the first place?
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