FPGA-Paint: Fingerpainting with a hardware chip

In this project, we developed a fingerpaint application allowing to paint on a touch screen. There is no software on the board, all is done using an FPGA chip loaded with some Verilog HDL code. You can even draw stars! The project is done at the University of Hasselt by me and some other students following a course called "Design and realization of high-performance multimedia- and HCI-systems" (http://didactiekinf.uhasselt.be/fpga/)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• EDM
• UHasselt
• SoCLab
• DE2-70
• TerAsic
• Altera
• FPGA
• paint
• touch
• screen

[broncocv]

wow, soo cool!! Uhm does that touch screen peripheral came with the Altera kit??, can you give mer any reference, i would like to know where to get one of those.!!! Good job man!!

[CommanderDuck]

@broncocv Glad you're interested in this technology. It's a standard Altera DE2-70 Board with some extra's. You can buy the combination as one package. I've found one reference Terasic (dot) com (dot) tw website. You can of course buy the camera/touchscreen parts separately. I don't know where our boards exactly came from, since they are university property :-)

[XxURM0MMAxX]

my itouch can do tht and it fits in my pocket OWN lol

[CommanderDuck]

@XxURM0MMAxX But you didn't make it yourself and, more important, you didn't get a Master's degree in science by showing off you itouch, right ;-)

[Biopharmer]

Do FPGA's lose their instructions when you turn them off? SO do you have to reload the code every time you turn an FPGA back on?

[CommanderDuck]

@Biopharmer You have several kinds of field-programmable chips: some of them are one-time programmable, others keep their state themselves. The Altera FPGA does not store its layout itself when turned off, but uses some EEPROM to load it again after boot. Bear in mind that an FPGA does not process a list of instructions stored in RAM like a CPU does!! It has been a while, correct me if I'm wrong :o)

[CommanderDuck]

@ChazZeromus Luckily the guy already died about 269 years ago *sigh*

[andresjordison10]

lol Congratulations!, Saludos desdE Colombia!!

[broncocv]

@YerhewoERI09 Field Programmable Gate Array: just a "integrated circuit" that can be configured to use several logic gates or predifined registers, etc...to make a big digital system,,,,

[flashlistener]

Your works good also it is nearly the same with ours. But i think we are one step forward from you :)

[XxURM0MMAxX]

dam lol if u did good for u lol jst saying pretty useless

[kbilal89]

awesome!!!!

[YerhewoERI09]

@Biopharmer thanks for the reply.