At a place that I hang out on very rare occasions, there’s a big red button. When somebody holds it, it starts up an air raid siren that can get really loud. Unfortunately, it spins up very slowly, so people let off as soon as they figure out what the button does. That results in one… Read More: I like candy. Do you like candy? »
Recently, I got given an FPGA development kit to continue working on my SHA1 system. The end-goal is to eventually integrate that into a PCI-E card, but we’ll see how that works out. The FPGA kit I have is the Digilent Basys2, and it uses a Xilinx Spartan 3E chip. The lowest-tier, 100k gate model.… Read More: I need another dev kit »
Preface: This is a year-old post that I never published. I guess I was waiting to be able to snap some pictures, but that never happened. Most of these components have been e-wasted by now. — I’ve talked about various avenues of rapid prototyping circuit boards before, and not really come up with any definitive… Read More: Stop-gap PCB creation (has stopped) »