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.
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
