Red is the New Green

They say the third time’s a charm, right? Well then let us introduce to you Revison C of the RPiSoC, now sporting the vibrant colors of our Alma Mater! We’re looking at 40 blank prototype boards here, and we don’t happen to have a pick and place machine lying around, so the soldering stations and […]

Published on: 8 July 2014
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Rethinking Digital Logic with the RPiSoC

For any Engineers out there, I’m sure you remember the unending tedium of Digital Electronics. First you have to commit to learning the principles of combinational and sequential logic through the use of logic gates, latches, flip flops, counters, adders, comparators, multiplexing, timing analysis, minimization, boolean algebra, and the list just goes on and on. Then (as […]

Published on: 20 June 2014
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Analog Functionality

In addition to all the digital power the RPiSoC has to offer, it also has several on board analog peripherals. This gives you increased design flexibility and eliminates the need for messy external circuitry. Check out some of the analog components that our board has to offer, internally!  We utilized this functionality to make a […]

Published on: 14 June 2014
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Accessibility

Utilizing the abundance of powerful resources available to the RPiSoC is designed to be accessible to inexperienced users, but it does this without compromising the potential for complex projects. Making your own projects with the RPiSoC is simple through utilization of the PSoC Creator software. PSoC Creator is a free GUI-based design environment for Windows […]

Published on: 14 June 2014
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Facial recognition and tracking system with the Raspberry Pi and RPiSoC

A Face tracking system developed on the Raspberry pi, using the RPi camera module, and realized using OpenCV. The identified faces are followed using a pan/tilt mechanism controlled by two servomotors. The servomotor control is offloaded to an RPiSoC using SPI. Check it out on youtube! You can easily extend this project to suit all […]

Published on: 13 June 2014
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LCD Twitter Feed with Raspberry Pi and RPiSoC

This project shows off easy communication between the RPi and RPiSoC.  Tweets that match user defined hashtags are pulled in from Twitter. The Rpi handles internet connectivity to Twitter through python scripts, while the RPiSoC drives the LCD screen. The project could easily be expanded to do other tasks on the RPiSoC using a new Tweet […]

Published on: 13 June 2014
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What about the Raspberry Pi?

As you may have already heard, the Raspberry Pi is a tiny and powerful computer that can run Linux, but it isn’t well equipped for interacting with physical devices. Our project aims to extend the functionality of the Raspberry Pi into the world of microcontrollers. With our board the Raspberry Pi has access to PWMs, […]

Published on: 13 June 2014
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