The Walking Zybo
The Zybo serves as the brain in this positively terrifying Halloween project!
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The Claw Game is Getting an Upgrade
The Claw Game is back… and better than ever with its flashy new upgrades!
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Pmod Monthly July: BeagleBone Black Rainbow Ruler
Talesa reveals the Pmod Monthly project for July!
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Come See Digilent At ASEE 2016!
Check out a sneak preview of what Digilent is bringing to the 2016 ASEE conference!
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Our Top 5 Favorite LabVIEW Projects for Makers
In celebration of this year’s Eyeo Festival, Quinn counts down her top five LabVIEW inspired projects.
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Prototyping a Project
What’s the best way to prototype a project?
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TBT: One Year with the Nexys 4 DDR
Happy first birthday to the Nexys 4 DDR!
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Light Up the Holiday Season
Check out these brilliant, luminous projects.
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#TBT: Bringing Back the Blinky Ugly Sweater
The holidays are time for cheer and ugly sweaters.
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An RGB LED Cube to Light Your Way!
A project designed to fill your time and your life with light.
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Getting Started with the Interactions Parts Kit, Part 1
What’s a good way to get started with the LabVIEW Interaction Parts Kit that’s coming out soon?
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Recapping the Week: October 18-24
What happened this week?
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The Grand (and Cheap) Chip-Oscope
What happens when you have no money, the need to measure electronic signals and waveforms, and one chipKIT Uno32?
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Iris Recognition on ZYBO
Interfacing with eyes by using an iris recognition program with the ZYBO.
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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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Throwback Thursday: Digilent MakerSpace at Lentil Festival
Remembering Digilent’s appearance at Lentil Festival 2014 and reminiscing about paper circuits.
Read MoreCosplay from a Maker Perspective
Whether you are a fandom geek or a maker nerd, this is the post for you!
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Demos for NI Week
Here at Digilent, we have been very busy getting ready to head down to the lovely city of Austin, Texas, to attend National Instruments NI Week conference. Check out the NI week website to get more information about the event.
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FPGAs and Microcontrollers
FPGA or microcontroller? Do I have to choose? We’re here with some of the differences between the two and appropriate times to use each.
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Fourth of July Sparkler
A change in the weather has finally signaled summer’s arrival, bringing with it a revival in childhood favorites. Whether enjoying the heat with water balloon fights or devouring gigantic slices …
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Using LabVIEW, LINX, and chipKIT WF32 to Control an LED Strip
This week, in preparation for ASEE, I created an Instructable on controlling an LED Strip with LabVIEW. For this project, I used LabVIEW, the chipKIT WF32, the WS2812 LED Strip, and LabVIEW MakerHub LINX.
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The Second Visit to the Bay Area Maker Faire 2015
This year, the MakerSpace at Digilent was able to attend the 2015 Bay Area Maker Faire. We brought two great demos, a breadboard wall, and a 900 LED matrix running the game Snake! Individuals also brought projects that they worked on. Our booth got a lot of attention due to the breadboard wall with simple and prepackaged circuits. Everybody loved being able to connect up a few parts with a couple wires and create a blinking light with a 555 timer. With that, there were also a couple adventurous people that created their own circuits.
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The Science of LEDs
LEDs are one of the coolest electronic components. They can brighten up any circuits project and turn it in to an eye-catching bonanza of blinking lights. Okay, corny imagery aside, they’re pretty cool. But have you ever thought of how they actually work? You likely already know that LED stands for light emitting diode. Where does the light emit from, though? There are no bulbs or filaments in an LED. So what’s going on in there that produces the glow that we love to have in all of our circuits?
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Proximity-Sensing LEDs to Help Lighten Up Your Day
This time of year, it’s easy to slip into a funk of finals and stress-inducing studying. But how to snap out of this haze? With some fun LEDs, of course. Will’s proximity-sensing LED projects from last year provide a fun, cheerful break from end-of-semester blues.
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New Product — High Current Adapter for NI myRIO!
We have a new product! We’d like to introduce the High Current Adapter for NI myRIO. With the High Current Adapter, you can use your NI myRIO to interact with high-current applications, like driving LED Strips, relays, and servos.
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