EPIC LAN PARTY NOV 16th (7pm-Midnight)

By on November 5, 2013

Usako will be hosting an awesome evening of gaming and fragging and fragging gaming. There may even be a space bridge simulator involved (and if you’re feeling like a bit of extra fun – feel free to come dressed for your role on the ship.) Stay tuned for more details on the exciting possibility of […]

FPGA Night (5 Nov, 7-10PM)

By on November 4, 2013

We will continue building the instruction set for our custom CPUs. Plans are to fix a bug in movaf, create movfa (move from memory to register a), and create jump opcodes for register_a and memory location comparisons. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! We will […]

C Programming Class Starting Sat. Nov. 16th 5pm

By on October 30, 2013

This class will teach you the fundamentals of ANSI C. We’re aiming for both beginners and those who have had little experience with C. Though experience with other languages would be helpful, it is not required. We’ll work on different projects to teach us the fundamentals. We’ll start with a simple Hello, World and work […]

FPGA Night (29 Oct, 7-10PM)

By on October 25, 2013

We will continue building the instruction set for our custom CPUs. Plans are to have add, subtract, logical shift (left and right), and rotate (left and right). Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! We will not have time to wait for the install process to […]

FPGA Night (22 Oct, 7-10PM)

By on October 20, 2013

We started work on our CPU last week. This class will focus on getting the CPU up and running with simple instructions like add, subtract, multiply, divide, jump, and sending data to the IO ports. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! We will not have […]

FPGA Night (15 Oct, 7-10PM)

By on October 14, 2013

This will be the last class on VGA before moving to CPUs. We will be modifying our code to draw multiple lines of text on the screen. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! We will not have time to wait for the install process to […]

FPGA Night (8 Oct, 7-10PM)

By on October 7, 2013

We will continue our work with VGA monitors. I have new code that we will be using to draw binary values with. If time permits, we will cover basic bitmaps. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! We will not have time to wait for the […]

3 Year Anniversary of Unallocated Space this Saturday!!

By on September 30, 2013

Let’s talk food and drink. Bring something to share. You’re thinking bacon, right? Or maybe homemade sweet potato pie. I hear folks love kabobs. The grill is going to be working overtime. What you’re bringing is entirely up to you. This is you’re opportunity to show off that special recipe and that fancy pants imported […]

FPGA Night (1 Oct, 7-10PM)

By on September 29, 2013

We will continue working with LCD monitors. The plan is to create a binary counter display that can display like a series of LEDs. We will start with one 8 bit vector and move on to showing multiple integers. Required Items: 1. Laptop with Xilinx ISE installed. Please ensure you already have the ISE installed!! […]

FPGA Night (24 Sep, 7-10PM)

By on September 22, 2013

We will continue to work on VGA by creating a VHDL module that can run off of a variable timing (defined at time of creation) and then creating a package that defines a series of VGA timings that the new VHDL module can use. If time permits, we will start talking about ideas for displaying […]

FPGA Night (17 Sep, 7-10PM)

By on September 15, 2013

We will be continuing from last week’s VGA designs. There were problems with some people not being able to display anything on their monitors. After some tweaking of the timings, I think everything should be good to go. If you have a monitor with a VGA connection and can bring it, please do. We have […]

Unallocated Space’s 3rd Anniversary Party and Potluck

By on September 11, 2013

It’s that special time of the year again. No, not the holidays, but you’re close. It’s Unallocated Space’s 3rd Anniversary Party and Potluck. Oh Yeah! http://www.meetup.com/ticketing/ticket_printable/?event_id=139345512 Unallocated Space’s 3rd Anniversary Party and Potluck On Saturday, October 5th, 2013 from 12:00 noon to midnight, you and your guest are invited to join us to celebrate in […]

FPGA Night (10 Sep, 7-10PM)

By on September 8, 2013

We will be going over how to make an FPGA drive an LCD monitor. With any luck I will have DB15 (VGA) breakout cables made before class. For those of you who need a breakout cable, please let me know as soon as possible. If you have a monitor with VGA connector(s) and can bring […]

FPGA Night (20 Aug, 7-10PM)

By on August 18, 2013

We will continue working with Serial/EPP data transfers. Here are the goals based on dev board type: Mojo: 1. Create a FIFO to buffer data being written to the serial (from FPGA to computer) 2. Write data as quickly as possible to the FIFO until it is full, then wait for the FIFO to become […]