As of yesterday, I’ve got a new laptop (woop woop I7-7700HQ)! Obviously that meant transferring data over though a bit of WiFi and an overnight transfer deemed me ready to rock this morning. I do however have an exam in a week which I should probably start revising for so this will be my last […]
Well today has been productive! Here, I’m using my cheapo MAX7219 LED screen (cheaply available off my favourite website eBay: http://goo.gl/NBURFm, link will expire!) to create a scrolling text effect! The font used is from my standard graphics library, originally from the Adafruit graphics library. I’ve modified the text size from 5×8 to 6×8 in the […]
Whenever I want to test something out really quick, I always find that Matlab is the easiest way to get things done with ease and don’t worry if you don’t have it, most of the functionality can be found in FreeMat (http://goo.gl/1a6zA)! So today, I’ve come up with the thought of adding some stuff to […]
Well! I’ve been looking to further develop my VGA controller on my CPLD. So as per, I’ve been researching into methods and what not and found out that 800×600 at a refresh rate of 72Hz uses a standard pixel clock of 50MHz! This is obviously in comparison to many other VGA modes which seem to […]
