Projects & Games
What’s newest is up top; the CAD/FPGA research tools and smaller builds are below.
LET’s PLAY
Board games for educators — a faculty learning community with Miami’s Center for Teaching Excellence.
Not Wikipedia
A dated record of not-yet-notable ideas: Canadian Numerals, Fanbedextrous, the Rock System, Nerdgency.
DarkFactory Games
Browser games, student projects, and father-son builds — built from second principles.
FPGA CAD & Research Software
Odin II
An open-source Verilog HDL synthesis tool for CAD research — simpler to build and run than the original Odin, on any modern *NIX system.
VPR 5.0 Power Models
Updated power models for VPR 5.0 covering the newer architecture file format and uni-/bi-directional routing.
Superseded by VTR — go there for the current power models and full CAD flow.Verilog-to-Routing (VTR)
The current academic FPGA CAD flow — the successor to VPR and Odin, and where their power/placement/routing work continues.
verilogTown
An educational Verilog/FPGA game, built as a professor, that teaches HDL design through play. Its own site.
GroundHog
A benchmark suite built with Nokia for evaluating FPGAs and reconfigurable architectures in the mobile domain.
GA-lapagos
A genetic-algorithm research codebase (GitHub) supporting several of the GA papers and student projects.
Fun & Small Builds
Fish Fun — Population Simulation
A Processing-built population simulator — big and little fish, breeding, eating, and the emergent behaviour that falls out of a few simple rules.
Pomodoro Timer
A hand-drawn (crayon!) kitchen timer built in Processing for trying out the Pomodoro Technique.