Re:Learn the basics of digital electronics with the hands-on...
by error503 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:39PM
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If you want to experiment with FPGA, the Lattice iCE40 series is a good starting point. It's not super capable (but will be more than enough for your project), but it was one of the first with a solid open source toolchain and has a strong open source / open hardware community as a result. It's also quite cheap.
Check out the iCEBreaker project for a decent board to get going with, and some educational materials: https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga
I've spent the weekend looking into this. I would love to build my own, but I'm not sure where to start with the FPGAs. What FPGA would you suggest that I check out for this application? I don't mind buying stuff and experimenting, I just need to know which direction to explore!
Thanks for your comments!
If I can get this to work, I'll definitely open-source my results!