Driving a VGA Display?! Getting started with an FPGA! (TinyFPGA)

Useful website for FPGA learning:

In this video I will be having a closer look at FPGAs and I will do some simple beginners examples with the TinyFPGA BX board. That means we will find out what makes an FPGA so special and also how to program it easily. At the end I will then show you how the required VGA signals looks like and how the TinyFPGA can create them. Let's get started!

Thanks to JLCPCB for sponsoring this video

Music:
2011 Lookalike by Bartlebeats
Killing Time, Kevin MacLeod

[kaumohlamonyane]

Ben Eater also has a great video on driving a vga

[ankaz]

"The LED on my FPGA board started blinking in Morse Codes displaying SOS, which means that everything worked out correctly."
Hmm...
I don't know whether to be concerned for Scott or the -sweatshop- manufacturers...

[Slushee]

You went from turning a led on and of with a t-flip flop to driving a VGA display and playing pong _real fast_

[gigimanueliacob]

I always get goosebumps when I see that you highlight 2-3 times and the paper start to bend a little bit due to excess humidity.

[juanmarico]

Thanks @GreatScott! for your reference to my "Pong" project. :)
It remained to test the "sound card" in the video. ;)

[EdwinFairchild]

I cringe when he goes over stuff with the highlighter more than once and then the black starts to bleed 😂😭, dope video though like always !!!

[jasonmacneil]

Amazing explation as usual. Been a fan for a long time. These projects keep a person sane in a time like this and you learn at the same time . 😁 WIN! WIN! ✌🏼🙏🏻

[makealemonade]

Your level of details in video is quite unique. The way you even described the type of blinking at 6:22. Loved it!

[AI_Trainer]

That's awesome. I think you may have inspired me to get back into these little beastys after about 25 years. It looks much easier than it used to be. Great video

[shadowrider-kisn]

Great video, once again! Like always, very informative without getting too sophisticated.

And by the way, it shows a great sense of humour, to let the chip blink SOS to say "everything worked out correctly"

[neekonsaadat]

Good job detailing all of the basic steps like installing atom and installing extensions; I remember frustrating over that stuff when I was a beginner, very valuable stuff!

[OranCollins]

DUDE! I've always wanted to get into fpga! this is awesome! I love the fact that the fpga is in a frendly arduino like form factor! and its cheap! thanks for the video! keep it up!

[MorneMoolman]

This is awesome. Thank you for doing this video. I wanted to do this for a while now.

[aldrinoshaju]

Thank You for the FPGA learning website, it will help me in the project that i am doing.

[ozzymandius]

HDL. That was the only thing standing between me and understanding FPGAs. Thanks Scott.

[hellNo]

man i remember watching you making a radio years ago. i even asked who listen to radio still and you answered for some reason (me being an entitled idiot back then, thinking if i don't use it who should).


this might be the first project i might sit down and start doing my self.


i really enjoy your content keep it up!!!

[Bleibruk]

That's something new to learn in this quarantine!

[julienderiviere]

And as always... great content! Love your channel 🤘

[ChrisRid]

Really informative video! I had an idea of what FPGA's were from watching a couple of videos on the EEVBlog, but this explained things in a much simpler way to understand. May have to get myself one!

[samverve]

Thank you great Scott!! This was really useful and interesting! I want to play with fpga now! 😊