Featured: My Second Gundam Model Build - Barbatos Lupus

I just finished building the Gundam Barbatos Lupus (021) kit from Bandai. It costs me $12 on Amazon and I spent about three hours total building it. I finally see the differences in the models as this one was a…

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Featured: A Saturday morning puzzle on my FPGA

I woke up this morning with a desire to solve a puzzle. I decided that I'd make a simple LED chaser on a 7-segment LED display using my Mojo FPGA (now that I have everything working in Windows 10 again…

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There's nothing wrong with Feedly

It seems I was incorrect about Feedly. It does show updates. However, I am also using Feedburner to syndicate my blog. It looks like Feedburner may be the culprit. When I changed my blog, nothing changed in my Feedburner feed.…

Michael Earls 23 July 2017

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My Second Gundam Model Build - Barbatos Lupus

Michael Earls 16 July 2017

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Strange VGA Effects on an FPGA

When I assembled my VGA implementation on my Mojo FPGA, I did so with only a single wire for each of the color signals (Red, Green, and Blue). This limited my color choices to 8 colors. I read about using…

Michael Earls 15 July 2017

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My First Gundam Plastic Model (Gunpla) - "Try Burning Gundam"

After working with electronics for awhile, I wanted to take a break from puzzles and try something new that requires less thinking (and less math). I decided that I wanted to build plastic models. After looking around local hobby shops,…

Michael Earls 25 June 2017

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A Saturday morning puzzle on my FPGA

Michael Earls 17 June 2017

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Who am I, really?

Due to various circumstances, I recently found myself in the job market again. There was a particular job that emerged that I got very excited about. They cold contacted me through LinkedIn, not knowing that I was even looking for…

Michael Earls 11 June 2017

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Pong on the Mojo Revisited

In my previous post, I briefly discussed the implementation of a pseudo-pong game on my Mojo FPGA developer board. I was able to implement the VHDL version that I linked to later in the post and it works much better.…

Michael Earls 27 May 2017

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Creating PONG on the Mojo FPGA

I recently found an old VGA monitor on the side of the road and it inspired me to see if I could get my Mojo FPGA board to output a VGA signal. I took the monitor apart and wired its…

Michael Earls 26 May 2017