So you are looking to get into the wonderful world of field programmable gate arrays, also known as FPGAs? In order to get started you are ideally going to want…
Looking to get started with Quartus quickly and easily? Quartus can be a little daunting on first load due to the sheer number of tools, however once you overcome the…
So you got yourself an Intel FPGA, loaded Quartus and then had a meltdown because of the sheer volume of things to click on the screen, right? Fear not my…
Want the latest version of Fritzing for free? This tutorial will teach you how to build the latest version of Fritzing from source code, which is still freely available from…
Looking to flash Arduino via the serial bootloader with the Raspberry Pi GPIO serial port? This article explains how to use the Raspberry Pi serial port to flash Arduino without…
Did you know that the Arduino IDE can be run from the command line? This means that we can create and flash sketches using the Raspberry Pi terminal and this…
An Arduino can theoretically control as many LEDs as you require for your design, only limited by the power supply current available. However if you want to control more LEDs…
If you want to understand the fundamentals of how to dim a LED so you can build your own dimmer, or you simply want to understand how this process works…
It is acceptable to use a LED without a resistor, but some method of limiting the current must be used in order to prevent the device from being destroyed. Failure…