Dangerous Prototypes features an interesting project, that is similar to my JTAGduino idea. JTAGWhisperer is a solution to program FPGAs and CPLDs using Arduino and a small client-side Python script. It reads files in the XSVF format, which stands for Xilinx Serial Vector Format and is one of the formats used to program Xilinx chips. […]
October 2, 2011
Recently the main Linux website, kernel.org, was compromised by an hacking attack. Since then, Linus Torvalds decided to use GitHub as the master repository for the whole kernel (here the announcement), and kernel.org has been down for a long time. This has broken some of my old tutorials on this blog. In my tutorials, I […]
March 20, 2011
I had to dispose of an old stationary bike that little by little fell apart. Before throwing it away I wanted to see if I could salvage something from its simple electronics. The bike has a sensor that somehow detects the rotation of the crankset and then is used to display the RPM on a […]
February 5, 2012
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