Resistor Calculator – Digilent’s First App!
Dharsan details Digilents first foray into the app store!
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Building a Smart Door
As long as you’re smarter than the door, you’ll be fine.
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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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Debouncing Circuits
Pushbuttons are an inherent source of problems inside of sensitive circuits. Ideally, we like to think that when a button is pressed it is either “pressed” or “not pressed” without any sort of funny business. Unfortunately, as pushbuttons are a mechanical component, a lack of funny business simply isn’t going to be the case.
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Keep Close to Me, A Max32 Robot
One of the teams in the Digilent Design Contest 2015 designed the “Keep Close to Me” robot. It was created to make life easier for seniors and other mobility-limited groups. It can fetch pills or carry a glass of water by moving within a specified environment. This innovative project is in its first iteration but shows a good deal of promise.
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Will Winter Wane?
Happy Groundhog Day! At Digilent, we have Punxsutawney Sam the groundhog to tell us whether we’ll have more winter to look forward to. Our 3D-printed friend is here to tell us whether winter will wane!
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The Basics of the 555 Timer IC
The 555 timer is undoubtedly one of the most important and ubiquitous integrated chips in history. It has also been over 40 years since the introduction of the 555, and no major changes have been introduced, making it one of the longest running designs in history as well.
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