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Product Review – Altera MAX V CPLD Development Board
The guys over at Altera have been extremely generous and sent us a MAX V CPLD development kit as well as another item we’ll be writing about very soon. Let’s have a look at the board and some of it’s...
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Building a 4bit / 8bit computer in CPLD
Something we’ve been working towards is building a homebrew CPU from scratch in CPLD. If you’ve seen any of our “Getting Started with CPLDs” guide, you might have noticed that we’re working towards...
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Why we do what we do
Strange title isn’t it. I’ll explain what I mean…A few days ago, my significant other handed me a cheap, nasty computer mouse and a cheap, nasty USB sparkly, colour changing, desk ornament thing and...
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Communicating wirelessly with the Arduino via VB.NET and Bluetooth
This is something that really interests us, connecting your Microcontrollers up to some sort of GUI in order to control it. This small project was originally just connected using a USB Cable (but that...
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Creating a Spotify remote with an Arduino and LCD Shield
This one is for the Spotify people. We’ve created a small project that makes use of the Arduino and LCD Keypad shield to create a Spotify remote control. This will show the current playing song as well...
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Programming the Arduino – Basics / Part 1
Since we post up lots of Arduino related content on the website, it only makes sense that we have some sort of tutorial series to follow. This will start from the basics to the more advanced subjects,...
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Programming the Arduino – Memory Management / Part 2
Let’s get started with the second part of the Arduino programming series. This time we’ll be talking about memory management on the Arduino, how to use it and how best to manage it – showing you how to...
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Atari ST restoration
Here at The Hackshed, we have several “retro” computers. A few of the machines we own are Atari STs. While looking at a couple of them the other day, I found one has a key missing (it was like that...
View ArticleGetting Started With CPLDs – Part 2
Ok so you’ve got your Quartus II software installed and you’re ready to start programming. I should note at this point that I will only be covering the schematic entry method of programming your CPLD....
View ArticleGetting started with CLPDs – Part 3
Before we get stuck in to the build, we need to take a look at resistor values. An LED will suck as much current from the CPLD chip as it can but what if your CPLD can only supply so much? The most...
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Getting Started with CPLDs – Part 4
In this guide, we’re going to build up from the previous guide and add a button to our LED. Hopefully by now you’ve had a play with the Quartus II software and had a look through some of the logic...
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Building a 4bit / 8bit computer in CPLD
Something we’ve been working towards is building a homebrew CPU from scratch in CPLD. If you’ve seen any of our “Getting Started with CPLDs” guide, you might have noticed that we’re working towards...
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Atari ST restoration
Here at The Hackshed, we have several “retro” computers. A few of the machines we own are Atari STs. While looking at a couple of them the other day, I found one has a key missing (it was like that...
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