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