The Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 is a powerful but also mysterious board. The FPGA gives it a performance boost over other Arduinos but its functions are very badly documented. There are also very few code examples available on the internet. Mini PCIe...
Here's a simple DVM made from an Arduino VIDOR 4000.
A potentiometer is placed in between VCC and GND with the wiper connected to analog input A3.
The value of the analog input is read and then shown through the HDMI to a monitor screen.
The arduino...
What is FPGA? (source: Wikipedia)
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing – hence the term "field-programmable". The FPGA configuration i...
SMART CYCLE
SUMMARY
In today’s world everything is being revolutionised and technological advancements are made everyday to day objects smarter so why not our cycles?Cyclists and motorists are the most likely to be killed...
When you build robots you always have to control lots of motors or RC servos. If you use a micro controller as main computing device you are fine because these devices have plenty of PWM outputs to control motors. But when you switch to more powerfu...
Introduction
'Programmable Logic' Project14 competition has given Element14 Community members (and myself) a chance to explore 'Programmable Logic' which is usually not explored by hobbyists or makers in the first pla...
My basic idea is to use Arduino MKR4000 board as source of true random generator for calculation based on Monte Carlo methods. At first stage of getting familiar with this board and Quartus software I have created a simple pseudo random generator w...
Hi folks, during my master's degree on computer science, i worked on the development of an architecture for checking digital circuits, based on FPGA focused on data centers, and high performance systems. But due to lack of support from the developer...
So, I've decided what I'm going to do for my Programmable Logic Project 14 entry. It's going to be a ball-rolling sort of game controlled by a couple of micro:bits. I'm hoping my kids will be able to help with the micro:bit side of things.
As...
MKR Vidor 4000 Camera Example
The Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 is not only the first in the Arduino MKR series to provide a FPGA option, it also as the option to add a camera via a MIPI connector near the Mini PCIe connector. With the assista...
This month's Projec14 - Programmable Logic - really appeals to me because I'm trying to get in FPGAs, but I'm finding it a little hard going. Well, let's be honest it's not easy. It's the sort of thing that I understand when i read it, I understand ...
VidorBitstream
Part of the intent of the VidorScout project is to take advantage of the FPGA code that Arduino has provided and modify it for a particular purpose. It is unknown at this time whether this is possible since not all of the...
Overview
VidorScout is an autonomous mobile robot that uses Sensor Fusion which combines camera vision, Time of Flight Sensor data and IR Sensors to identify objects for both avoidance and for object identification. The camera sensor can also...
Introduction
Programmable System on Chip (PSoC) is a component that mixes a CPU core (ranging from an 8-bit device to a dual-core 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4) and a configurable mixed-signal array. This way of designing is very powerful – while the C...
This is the final blog for my unofficial entry in the Picasso Design Challenge. I set out to create a holonomic mobile robot (which is a robot that doesn't change the orientation of the chassis even when the chassis is moving in different directions)...
Please excuse the dreadful joke! Something I have been trying to build for the last N years, where N is >0x30, is to build an electronic organ. Every time I start building something, technology moves on. The first attempt uses a top octave ge...
WOPR STORY
Hello There,
WOPR is in the movie WARGAMES from Disney, a phantomatic Defence system of Armed Forces that has some lights blinking and sounds around it, it plays a role as supercomputer that playes a tris game with a young hacker t...
