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Thursday, December 29, 2005

So you think your Christmas Lights were the bomb?

This must be somewhere in the burbs like Danville, Campbell... or maybe Castro Valley (no TWW'rs live in places like that right?)

1,2,3,Go!

posted by L. Christmas @ 12/29/2005  

5 Comments:

  • At 12/30/2005, Blogger ginmtb said…

    West Siyeeeeeeeeed!!!

     

  • At 12/30/2005, Blogger maleonardphi said…

    I think that guy lives down in San Jose somewhere. I think I saw him on the news last year. Either way, way too much time on his hands.

     

  • At 12/31/2005, Blogger schlaca laca laca laca said…

    The house is in Ohio, near Cincinatti.

    http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051205/LIFE/512050331

    OK, this is (kind of) my claim to faim: we have a copy of this movie plus a detailed explanation of the guys setup at work. This is becuase he uses two of my company's customer demo boards http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?key=DO-SPAR3-DK&sGlobalNavPick=PRODUCTS&sSecondaryNavPick=BOARDS

    as the main "brains" of his setup. He's actually running soft microcontrollers programmed inside the FPGAs. Pretty cool what you can do with two generic $99 customer demo boards for a programmable logic chip and the free software that's included, eh? Actually, he also uses a bunch (I think 6) of power-switching boards, which I think he calls "Triacs", that are controlled by the microprocessors inside the Spartan-3 FPGAs.

    My (very weak) link to all of this is that I've just designed the next generation version of the customer demo boards, which we'll be selling for $149 on our web site soon (Spartan-3E Starter Kit).

    Sorry for the geek-out...

     

  • At 12/31/2005, Blogger L. Christmas said…

    FPGA's are the new black

     

  • At 1/01/2006, Blogger schlaca laca laca laca said…

    And I thought that brown was the new black...

     

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