14 May
2026
14 May
'26
2:10 p.m.
The first FPGA class seems to have gone well! I understand a bunch of
people learned that you can make any logic gate using only NAND gates,
which I assume is what the gates in Field Programmable Gate Arrays are.
I'm hoping the next class will include some FPGA action and people learning
how to program them? If there is hardware available, like little USB based
FPGAs, i'm sure participants are willing to pay for them so that we can
start playing with them ourselves! Can you make that happen or drop some
links if we should get them ourselves? And also the software toolchains so
that people can get started learning about this and help teach each other
during the next meetup?
Last night I prepared a VGA connector for hooking up to an FPGA because
that's an exciting activity that i'd like to pursue with them, and now we
have a cool VGA monitor to play it on.
-jake
On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM Larry Doolittle via sudo-discuss <
sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
Arik -
On Tue, May 05, 2026 at 08:51:16PM +0000, arik via sudo-discuss wrote:
FPGA gathering planned this Thursday, May 7. We
didn’t settle on a time
I think, if I’m mistaken please let me know; otherwise I
propose 19:00 (7
PM).
7 PM sounds fine. I'll probably get there a bit earlier to start
gathering supplies.
Also, I have another very interested and well
suited party who would
join.
Cool! I think I have parts for 2-3 "learning stations".
More than 2-3 people means sharing, which is mostly good.
- Larry
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