Please join us on Wed, Jan 30 for a special guest speaker. Jim Jackson, co-author of the book HTML5 for .NET Developers. There is limited space available, so you must register on meetup.com for this event. Jim Jackson is the co-author of HTML5 for .NET Developers, available now at http://www.manning.com/jackson and on Amazon. Jim has worked on […] Read more
Chris has been dabbling with CPLD’s and FPGA’s. He wanted to share some helpful resources with anyone else looking to get started with them as well. Difference between CPLDs and FPGAs: http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-fpga-and-cpld/ VHDL Tutorial: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ese171/vhdl/vhdl_primer.html Xilinx ISE Software (Windows or Linux, 32 & 64 bit available) http://www.xilinx.com/tools/designtools.htm Digilent Xilinx FPGA Board: http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,790&Prod=BASYS2 Digilent Xilinx CPLD […] Read more
Netduino Over the last few weeks Harford Hackerspace has had the pleasure of beta testing the Netduino. The Netduino is a development board with a form factor similar to the Arduino. Care was taken when designing the Netduino to ensure compatibility with most of the existing Arduino shields. That’s about where the similarities of the two devices […] Read more
Me and my wife recently had our first child. I’ve been trying to come up with some projects I can do for the kid. Well, around this time of the year the fireflies go crazy around my house, so we came up with the idea to do led fireflies in a jar. It should be […] Read more
Around the space, we have been using the PICkit 2 Debug Express quite a bit lately. This has allowed us to get pretty cozy with the functions of this handy little programmer and I thought I would share some of these features with you. I’m sure you’ve read the previous tutorial ‘Programming PIC Microcontrollers in […] Read more