Dave VandenboutYou know how in action movies the cops always arrive after the bad guy has been taken out? Well, the Lattice iCEstick I ordered arrived today.
Since the CAT Board is working (at least the bitstream configuration part), I'll probably hold on to the iCEstick for a week and then send it back if I don't find any new problems.
I know, you're probably thinking "It's only $20. You'll use it for something!" Well, no, I won't. I've got half a dozen dev boards sitting around that have never been used (and I'm not alone in that). It's time to break the addiction before I end up on "Hoarders".
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Keep it and check out swapforth with it: https://github.com/jamesbowman/swapforth
There's a nice tutorial for it up at : http://www.excamera.com/sphinx/article-j1a-swapforth.html
It also builds using icestorm!
I think swapforth on the CAT board is somewhat of a killer app :)
All the more so if multiple J1's can be run at once like the ZPUino.
I've been playing around with it myself, and finding it much quicker to do things with than even an arduino - I found your project here courtesy of the new link at the bottom of the icestorm page :)
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Thanks for the link!
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Don't worry, you'll find people who would gladly have it too ;-)
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There's a fully opensource toolchain for that, might be fun to play with.
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Well, worst case you can keep it to use as a flex sensor. :-) http://hackaday.com/2015/09/27/mystery-fpga-circuit-feels-the-pressure/
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Ha ha, please! You're enabling my addiction.
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