
A Back To School Message From Our President
There are hints of color in the trees and we’ve had our first real heavy rains here in Washington after a hot and dry summer. Our interns are back to …
Read MoreLearning for Engineers, Students, and Hobbyists
There are hints of color in the trees and we’ve had our first real heavy rains here in Washington after a hot and dry summer. Our interns are back to …
Read MoreNoise exists all around us. But it is usually a too low a volume for us to appreciate with the human ear. What if there was a way to capture and display it in a way that was both acoustically pleasing and visually appeasing? Thanks to MirceaDabacan, there is.
Read MoreHappy 4th of July! This is a short post to let you know that the Digilent office will be closed over the next couple of days. The Digilent Blog will be posting once a day. Our offices (and regular blogging schedule) will resume on July 6. In the meantime, have an Instructable or two!
Read MoreThis Father’s Day, we would like to take a moment to appreciate all of the dads out there who inspire us to do our best. Whether new or experienced, our fathers are there to support us as we learn and grow. So what can we do for them to show our appreciation?
Read MoreAs the school year comes to an end and people and families prepare for their vacations, their minds begin to relax. To keep those minds sharp and focused, it may be time to start a summer project. Going through the Internet to find such a project can be tedious and time-consuming. If you don’t want to spend time going through thousands of Instructables, then maybe we can help. Let’s take a look at some of our projects and products that could help fill those lax summer hours.
Read MoreDharsan, a new Digilent intern, used the LabVIEW Home Bundle and the NI myRIO to create a circuit that controls the speed of a fan based on a temperature reading.
Read MoreAs you know from yesterday’s post, six of the members of the MakerSpace at Digilent went to Maker Faire to represent the MakerSpace and show off some of the projects that we have been doing.
Read MoreWe hope you had a great weekend, even though we’re sad it’s over! Want to end those Monday blues and work on a fun FPGA project? Take a leaf out of Instructable …
Read MoreHappy Star Wars Day! As you contemplate the Force and whether you fall on the light side or dark side, you can multi-task by doing one of these fun projects.
Read MoreAre you looking for a good project to do with your Analog Discovery? On the Digilent Forum, Alex loaded a few of them from students at Sri Vishnu Engineering College for Women in southeastern India.
Read MoreThis is a reminder about the 11th annual Digilent Design Contest, an exciting international student hardware design competition open to students worldwide who are passionate about electronics, digital design, and electrical engineering in general.
Read MoreAfter a fun time at ECEDHA, we’ve been enjoying a quieter week at Digilent. It’s spring break in the college town of Pullman, which means a good deal of peace. We also celebrated St. Patrick’s Day in the most ecologically responsible way we could. Check out what we’ve been up to now!
Read MoreIf you have been keeping up with our blog, you know that we are currently working on starting our MakerSpace and opening it up to the public. So far we have mainly been working on the content part of the MakerSpace by holding the networking class and most recently the first installment in the 3D printing class.
Read MoreA few weeks ago, we found ourselves in the Digilent Makerspace tinkering with some fantastic LED strips, the WS2811 / WS2812. If you haven’t played with these yet, you really ought to. I grew up loving colored lights. Some kids threw the baseball, while I made amusing shapes on a Lite-Brite and begged to put Christmas lights in my window in mid-September. That being said, you can see how giving a weirdo like me a strip of individually-controlled LEDs, each supporting 24-bit color, would be like giving matches to a madman.
Read MoreYou may have noticed there are a variety of chipKITproducts out there, but which one should you use?
Today, I’ll be highlighting two of Digilent’s microcontrollers, specifically the chipKIT Uno32 and the chipKIT Pro MX4.
Read MoreMaker Faire 2014 was my first convention of any kind and the experience exceeded any expectations I could have had. From the time I stepped on the grounds, I was enveloped in the “Maker” camaraderie that exists despite the community being comprised of different skill sets and backgrounds. Really, we are all there because we just fit in, because we are Makers.
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