In the past few weeks, Stijn and Krzysztof have been playing with FPGA chips. Progress has been made! Stijn has created a servicable text-mode VGA setup: Eventually, a component like this will be used for quick debugging of FPGA internals and/or GUI’s for the upcoming FPGA-hosting Goldfish device. For now it Read more
After using our V1 prototyping boards for a while we decided to design some improved versions to make future experiments easier. This new board is focussed on mostly analog setups: It features a switchable supply between USB and external power and an area for SOIC MCU’s and CODECs. This board Read more
China is usually perceived as difficult by Europeans: communication is impossible, constant daily hassle, unyielding culture and far too many people. We are here to experience the truth of it. If there is any prejudice in particular you would like us to check out – let us know. Communication on Read more
blog written by Roman Buehler Yesterday I temporarily separated from my beloved TINRS-friends and went to Zhuhai, where I met my other lovely friend John Wang. I and my brother met him for the first time in our China Trip 2011, when we crisscrossed China on a different kind of Read more
A brief compilation of us on the Shenzhen Maker Faire – there are more videos with interviews and explanations to come but currently we are still very busy running around in China
One of the things we saw on the Faire was Palette – a system of connectable blocks. Each block contains an interaction element – a knob, a slider, a button, a LED or a tiny screen. You can connect the blocks together using side connectors to build a customized control surface Read more
At the Shenzhen Maker Faire we spotted Bunnie and had ourselves a little chat. We explained the concept behind TINRS and he fully agreed with showing the world that stuff can be done. When he asked if we had a sticker we offered a choice selection of our cut outs Read more
We were already spotted on the platform of the metrostation “Are you coming for Maker Faire?” – “yes” – “Follow me, I show you”. It must be our geek-sjiek attitude.. Just out of the station there were many of the Maker-red-robots, drones in the air and a rather large Bumblebee Read more
Krzysztof Foltman has posted his FPGA efforts so far on GitHub! Currently the codebase contains modules to deal with: – key-matrix input – LED output with brightness control – Serial port input and output – SPI flash – Quad-SPI flash (4 times as fast as regular SPI) No doubt this will Read more
HDMI video out should be well within reach of a Spartan 6 FPGA. I am still in the process of readin up and figuring out. Here are some of the more interesting reads I’ve found. Some are interesting in-depth, technical details, some are stories of people that did this before. Read more