Featured: 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…

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Featured: Reversible Binary Counter on the Mojo FPGA

After playing around with the Binary counter implementation from a previous post: Implementing a simple binary counter in the Mojo FPGA IDE, I wanted to make the LEDs display a count down in response to a switch position. I decided…

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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

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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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Reversible Binary Counter on the Mojo FPGA

Michael Earls 03 April 2017

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How I accidentally learned something unexpected from a simple binary counter

In my previous post, I talked about how I implemented a binary counter with my Mojo FPGA board. I am working on a follow-up post on implementing a reverse binary counter with a switch that lets you change between the…

Michael Earls 16 March 2017

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Implementing a simple binary counter in the Mojo FPGA IDE

I recently purchased a Mojo FPGA development board based on the recommendation of my good friend Keith Rome. He's been very helpful in getting me started on my journey into this bizarre technical realm. I've also had a lot of…

Michael Earls 10 March 2017

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Goodbye Oracle VirtualBox, hello Microsoft Hyper-V

I use virtual machines to do a lot of my daily development. It's also how I log into my machine at work, as the VPN setup with the state is a bit invasive on the host machine (it has a…

Michael Earls 01 March 2017

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