Pixblasters announces new and updated FPGA LED controllers (ver. 107) that are immediately available to download free-of-charge from https://pixblasters.com/deliverables/. The latest Pixblasters firmware now includes full support for video control of 4-wire RGB LEDs with separated DATA and CLK digital inputs, such as APA102, HD107, SK9822 and others. This new firmware update is applicable to all Pixblasters MS1 Video LED Controller boards currently deployed in the field.
After many months of preparation, the team here at Radiona is ready to
launch our crowdfunding campaign for the ULX3S FPGA with
ESP32. Hackaday described ULX3S as creating "the Year of the Hacker
FPGA," and we are finally ready to make that prediction a reality. Many
people have worked to prepare this board – and the sample code that
highlights its potential – for distribution to makers and hobbyists
worldwide. We believe this is one of the best developer boards ever
designed, as it incorporates a vast array of features and capabilities
into one relatively small and reasonably priced package.
Coming Soon: V853 Dev Board, Update Roundup: ChipWhisperer-Husky, DAQiFi Nyquist 1, AquaPing, BeanCounter, Halo TD-XPAH, In Stock: ULX3S, ANAVI Gardening uHAT, STEAM Stories: When Thea LED the Way
All components have been secured, and CaribouLite production continues. Unfortunately, we have had to delay delivery of CaribouLites until October. Those are the words we have been unable to say until now. We waited to be 100% sure, but, as of today, this has became our optimistic reality. Thank you for your patience! See below for the gruesome details...
The original TinyFPGA B2 was developed by Luke Valenty in the summer of 2017. The idea was to create a tiny, breadboard-able, open hardware, and low-cost FPGA board for makers. The B2 introduced a novel open-source USB bootloader built into the FPGA fabric itself. The original production run of 250 boards has sold out and the new and improved BX revision is ready to launch!
In 2022 Schlappi Engineering released the Three Body, a Eurorack phase and frequency modulation triple oscillator based on the Lattice ECP5 FPGA and the open source Yosys/Nextpnr toolchain.
We will recap the development of that oscillator from the Icebreaker and ULX3s development boards through release and manufacturing then discuss the various pitfalls and discoveries we have made in prototyping since then.