Hello COMP3222! Pictured: Windows 3.0 running on the FPGA. The Zet project is, loosely-speaking, a FPGA implementation of a x86 processor. Most fortunately it was compatible with the DE-1, after much fustration of trying to understad “what the FPGA board was”, and its flashing tools. Complete with VGA display and PS/2 Keyboard input (no mouse due to lack of ports). Re-living the horror of being able to delete the Control Panel once more!

This semester I am taking a course in microprocessors. We have been learning Atmel’s AVR 8-bit ISA. (I just finished a report on the differences between ARM and AVR) Check out the brand new kits that the school have been busy assembling: Well it turns out that the manufacturing itself was done in China. I asked. An experimental observation was that the board cannot handle 12V. I write “experimental observation” because I fried the first dev board and had to get it replaced.

Hellow there, fellow Linux enthusiast. Looking for a way to program the NXT robot using your Linux notebook? Well, turns out you can! What works Compiling NXC code – exactly as it would on Windows & OSX Downloading the compiled code to the NXT brick through USB What generally won’t work Actual NXC language code completion Firmware update the NXT thru Linux at ur own risk… Your NXC IDE in Linux Not too much choice here: