TBT: Digilent’s History
Have you ever wanted to know Digilent’s history? We’ve done a few blog posts recounting some of the cool things Digilent has done in the past. Now, we’ve gathered all …
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Throwback Thursday: Electronic Components with Odd Values
Why are those numbers so seemingly random?
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Throwback Thursday: A Pig’s Perspective
A personal message from Susan, the Line-Following Pig.
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Throwback Thursday: A History of Robots
How did we get from Archytas’ mechanical bird propelled by steam to today’s more complex robots (like our beloved Susan, the line-following pig)? Time, technology, and creativity provide a path.
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Throwback Thursday: Digilent’s Beginnings, Gene Apperson’s Story
Upon his retirement from Microsoft in 1998, Gene Apperson and his family relocated to Pullman, Washington. After a few years, Gene decided to go back to school as an undergraduate in mechanical engineering. A professor, Bob Richards, soon asked Gene to switch to the Master’s program, even though most of his background was in electrical engineering. He ended up taking a VLSI design class from none other than Clint Cole. While Gene ended up asking Clint whether he would be able to do well in the class, they got to talking and decided to start a company together.
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Throwback Thursday: Digilent’s First Video
While Digilent’s YouTube channel now has x videos, but it wasn’t always that way. Back in 2010, we did our first YouTube video. It’s part of the Real Analog Course by Tim Hanshaw, and it’s incredibly fun to see how much has changed in five years!
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Throwback Thursday: Looking Back at Nexys
We’ve talked a lot lately about the Nexys 4 DDR lately, and we definitely hope you like it as much as we do here at Digilent. But what are the roots of this awesome board?
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Throwback Thursday: Early Digilent Packaging
When Norm MacDonald started working full-time for Digilent back in 2005 – 2006, most of our products were sold in very basic packaging (think anti-static bags and plain white boxes). Totally understandable for a starting company. A few boards were given a bit of branding, though. The Basys and Nexys, of course. These were the simple boxes those came in at the time. (They may have been done by Clint or Jim or some combination of the two.)
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Throwback Thursday: The Original Cerebot Line
You’re probably familiar with our chipKIT Pro MX7 and MX4 by now. But how did this line of microcontrollers get its start?
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Throwback Thursday: Digilab Begins
A few weeks ago, we did a throwback that included the D2XL. And now we can take a look back at the original Digilab I! It’s one of the first boards we made (circa 2001), and it’s always interesting to see how far we’ve come.
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Throwback Thursday: Starting Digilent
How did Digilent begin? Here’s our story.
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Throwback Thursday: Children on Old Computers
In the rapidly changing world of technology, the giant computers of yore are particularly befuddling to the younger generations who weren’t around concurrently with those computers. Children were shown computers from the 1970s and reacted to them.
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Throwback Thursday: Old Brochure, Old Boards, Old Prices!
This week’s throwback features one of the first tri-fold brochures we did, coming up on 11 years ago! Interesting to see the old product lineup. The D2 is probably the oldest board you see there, within the first four or five that Digilent ever built.
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Throwback Thursday: Digilent’s Old Location
Digilent hasn’t always been located at 1300 NE Henley Court! Looking back at its old locations is so fun — getting to see where we were and how we’ve grown. Today, we’d like to show you one of our former locations, the one right before our current building. This was Digilent’s fourth location. Norm snapped these pictures on a Friday night in 2006, just after we had re-organized the main floor. This was the “combine” building — it sits above what is now one of Pullman’s fine dining establishments, Black Cypress.
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Throwback Thursday: Randomness around Digilent
Recently, we found some great snapshots into what life was like at Digilent between 2003 and 2005. How things have changed in the ten years or so since most of these images were taken!
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