Blogs about Programming

• A Weekend Introduction to FPGA Programming

  Andrew Back

  Chip Hack was a two day workshop that ran over the weekend of 20th and 21st April and provided an introduction to FPGA programming for complete beginners.

• A Closer Look at Parallella

  Andrew Back

  As Parallella prototypes start to ship this post takes a look in more detail at what this potentially game changing single board computer provides and a few potential applications.

• Coconut Pi: An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Development Project

  gohew

  We are a team of Undergraduate Engineers embarking on an exciting journey into the embedded realm of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Development. Follow us on our facebook fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/coconutpi or stay up to date as we post our fortnightly blog updates to Designspark! Our team is also open to suggestions and opinions from the Designspark Engineering community. You can either comment on our blog posts or just scroll through our daily pictures and updates on our facebook page and leave a helpful comment or suggestion for us to consider in our development process!

• Arduino or Raspberry Pi?

  Andrew Back

  A comparison of the respective benefits of the low cost embedded development platforms that may help with making a decision as to which to use when.

• Hacking the TP-Link TL-WR703N

  Andrew Back

  The TL-WR703N is a 3G travel router that has become a hit with the hacking community due its low cost, compact size and the ease at which it can be re-purposed. This post covers initial experiences wi

• Processing on the Raspberry Pi

  Andrew Back

  A look at getting the Processing programming language and IDE up and running on a Raspberry Pi, and example code working with the TI Chronos eZ430 development kit.Processing is a programming language

• Hands on with a 144 core processor

  Andrew Back

  The GA144 from GreenArrays is a highly novel 144 core processor that combines high performance with low power consumption. This post covers initial experiences with breadboarding the GA144 and using t

• Easy as Pi, teaching 7-9 year olds programming

  Pete Wood

  As I turned my head, a blackboard rubber travelling at what seamed 100mph whooshed past my ear leaving a trail of chalk dust. Luckily I wasn't the target, and it was a good job too, as the origin of t

• Community Insights: Julius Baxter (OpenRISC)

  Andrew Back

  Julius Baxter is a core team member on OpenRISC, a project that is developing a family of open source 32 and 64-bit RISC CPU architectures. In this interview Julius provides us with the background to

• Learn electronics with an Arduino and Raspberry Pi on an old Philips TV

  conoro

  If you are not familiar with Arduino, it is an OpenSource hardware platform for electronics projects, tinkering, robotics, home automation etc etc etc. The blue board above is the heart of it.