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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Featured: 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.…

FPGA electronics programming

A Saturday morning puzzle on my FPGA

Michael Earls 17 June 2017

FPGA electronics hobbies

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

Michael Earls 27 May 2017

FPGA electronics programming

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

FPGA electronics programming

Out of body experiences and death. Are they related?

When we lived in Arizona, we used to go on adventures in our car at night (when it cooled off). We would drive out of the city and turn down small roads that led into the deeper desert. It was…

Michael Earls 20 April 2017

death philosophy

Moon Phase Calculator for the Pebble Watch (C Source)

A few years ago, I bought a Pebble smartwatch. Mostly I bought it because it was cheap, but I also wanted to write my own apps for it. I wrote a few apps. Recently, Pebble was bought by FitBit and…

Michael Earls 17 April 2017

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Custom Fritzing part for Mojo v3

There is a great tool called Fritzing that allows you to create a breadboard view of circuits that you can use for documentation. I really wanted to use it to document the breadboard for my post on setting up a…

Michael Earls 09 April 2017

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Using Notepad++ as the default editor for Xilinx ISE

I was having difficulties working with the built in text editor for the ISE FPGA tool from Xilinx. I was missing some of the things I've come to depend on in the editors that I use every day (Visual Studio,…

Michael Earls 04 April 2017

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Michael Earls

I have been a computer nerd since I was ten years old. I begged my parents to buy me a computer for Christmas. In 1982, I was the proud owner of a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. I've been coding since.

A Saturday morning puzzle on my FPGA

Who am I, really?

Pong on the Mojo Revisited

Creating PONG on the Mojo FPGA

Out of body experiences and death. Are they related?

Moon Phase Calculator for the Pebble Watch (C Source)

Custom Fritzing part for Mojo v3

Using Notepad++ as the default editor for Xilinx ISE