You Decide the Competition. Your Ideas, Your Projects, Your Chance to Win a Shopping Cart!
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You Decide the Competition. Your Ideas, Your Projects, Your Chance to Win a Shopping Cart!
Your project can be anything that involves Digital Logic. In can involve FPGA, logic gate ICs, CMOS logic, TTL, DTL, discrete logic, and more!
Explore A-D or D-A techniques, or improve them by increasing speed, resolution, linearity, reduction of noise ro filtering of analog signals.
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The theme this month is Digital Fever and it celebrates all things digital, from digital logic, giving programs the ability to make complex decisions, to FPGA, which can begin configured to do just about anything. The idea comes from jancumps. Your project can be anything that involves Digital Logic. In can involve FPGA, PLD, logic gate ICs, CMOS logic, TTL, DTL, discrete logic, and more! You can do projects made primarily made of discrete components such as resistors, capacitors, discrete logic chips and single-functionality chips such as those provided by the 74007400 series. You could do a STEM related activity such as a logic gate board game. Or you can do Programmable Logic projects, using an FPGA or PLD board of your choice such as an Arty-S7Arty-S7, a PYNQ-Z2PYNQ-Z2, an Ultra96-V2Ultra96-V2, a MiniZedMiniZed, or a PSOC6PSOC6. If you are interested in doing a project involving a VIDOR 4000VIDOR 4000 or PSoC 4200PSoC 4200, submit your project proposal and we will send boards to the best project proposals that use them! Both of these boards are great if you are just getting started with Programmable Logic.
Binary code is used to describe every aspect of reality in the digital world we live in. From the movies we watch, to the music we listen to, and the text that you are currently reading on this screen, all of it is some combination of 1s and 0s, making it possible to represent every aspect of our reality in the virtual world. The late 17th century mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz is credited with inventing the binary system which forms the basis of modern computing, drawing at least in part from the I Ching, aka Book of Changes. Twenty-four year after Leibniz published his first paper announcing the invention of binary code, a Jesuit in Beijing sent him illustrations of Chinese trigram and hexagrams. He published a second paper crediting the Chinese with inventing the first binary code.
Like the 1s and 0s currently used to translate reality into the digital world, the I Ching (which may be as much as 5,000 years old) represents reality in the binary language of Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang are polar opposites and are often described in terms of male and female, light and dark, on and off, positive and negative. While binary code can literally be used to define images, numbers, letters, and music; according to the I Ching the universe is a constant mix and interaction between Yin and Yang and reality is an illusion. Could the illusory nature of augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality in the digital world be supporting evidence of the illusory nature of reality itself?
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Project14 | Digital Fever: Explore Digital Logic: From Discrete to FPGA: Win a PSoC 4200 or a MKR VIDOR 4000! 1 week ago in Digital Fever |
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Flipping Core Memory Bits Directly With a Magnetic Stylus 1 month ago in Electromagnetism | by Andy Geppert |
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Digital Logic µFR NFC Card Reader - part 1: first C program for Linux (Raspberry Pi, BB, ...) 2 months ago in Internet of Things | by Jan Cumps |
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VidorScout - MKR Vidor 4000 Mobile Robot: Assembly and Test 2 years ago in Programmable Logic | by jomoenginer |
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PSoC ultrasonic range meter 2 years ago in Programmable Logic | by koudelad |
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DIY Test Equipment: The ByEar 2000 - A Logic Probe 4 years ago in Jon Clift's Blog | by jc2048 |
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| Building A Direct Digital Synthesis Dual-Channel Signal Generator | Vector Display GPU Project | |
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The January theme is Data Conversion and it was inspired by a suggestion from neuromodulator. Your projects can explore either A-D or D-A techniques, or improve them in terms of increasing speed, resolution, linearity, reduction of noise or filtering of the analog signal. Analog electronics and precision measurement are important for ADC and DACs. element14 Essentials: Analog Electronics 1 gives a good primer on this topic and it covers key parameters, characteristics, and applications of precision measurement analog ICs, including ADCs, DACs, voltage references, op-amps, audio amplifiers, and current sense amplifiers. .
Some examples of projects shabaz came up with include data acquisition and charting (Brewing beer with Raspberry Pi) ; seismology (TI LDC1000 Evaluation Module ) ; switched capacitor, and sample and hold based circuitsswitched capacitor, and sample and hold based circuits; detecting sounds (Vibration Sensor and Exercising - Calculating FFT on Nucleo Board - Blog #3 ); signal generation (Building A Direct Digital Synthesis Dual-Channel Signal Generator ); medical sensing (MagicHat - 6 - Heart beat detection ); power monitoring (Turn your Avnet Azure Sphere Starter Kit into a Power Meter / Data Logger ), software defined radio (Software Defined Radio (SDR) - My First Design ), and distance learning (Virtual Eye System -- Post#4 -- Programming the Pi to get the distance ). Projects can involve ADCs or DACs, or analog data could be sampled or filtered or converted to a different domain, signals could be extracted or synthesized, speech processing, instrumentation, SDR and so on.
Your Chance to Win up to a $200 Shopping Cart of Product!
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| Project14 | Holiday Special 20: Win Tool Kit Bundles, Shopping Carts, and Gifts to Give Others! | Cotton LED star with Digispark module | |
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The fourth annual Holiday Special 20 is an open-ended holiday project competition that challenges you to make a project that reflects what the holidays mean to you. 2020 has been a sobering year for most, we are hoping this year's holiday project competition brings a familiar sense of joy and normality to the holiday season, and that technology can help bridge the distance between friends and family, during a time of the year that has become synonymous with gathering around friends and family.
So, we’re asking members to spread mirth and merry to the world through projects that use music, LED Displays, Nixie Pixels, Strobe Lights, Fog Machines, or anything else that puts you into a celebratory mood. If the past year has put you in a reflective mood, your project can be a thoughtful project with others in mind, such as a project inspired by gifts, food, or cards exchanged during the holidays. Or you could focus on electronic ways of sending the warmest wishes to friends and family, such as an electronic greetings card, a way to automatically email or use RF transmission to link up via video etc. It can also be a fun project that's made in the holiday spirit such as a snow globe that will warn you of inclement weather conditions, voice-activated ornaments, jazzed up holiday cards, LED decorations - anything that means the holidays to you. Your project can be related to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Festivus for the rest of us related! It can even be a Star Wars project, if you only believe in the Force. The only thing that we ask is that your holiday project shows heart!
The project that shows the most heart wins a tool kit (~ $500 value) that includes a handheld oscilloscope, a usb soldering iron, a bench power supply, wire strippers, along with a $400 shopping cart plus a $100 gift to give to another member for their project. Three first place winners will receive will receive a tool kit bundle (~value of $300 value) along with a $200 shopping cart and a $100 shopping cart to give to another member for their projects. All Gift to Gives can be given to any member’s that the winners think are deserving but did not win.
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