debian

Compiling Kicad on Debian Bullseye

March 10, 2024

kicad, ecad, eda, debian

With my new hobby, there came the desire to learn to build and design my own PCB. With that in mind, I began to use the open source ecad solution Kicad. Now I became interested in participating in this project, but, to compile the code you have endure a few challenges - you know, collecting the dependencies,installing them, choose the right branch whiche compiles down and so on. Here I want to show you my experience with that. ...

FPGA 101: Get the Nandland Go board ready on Debian Bullseye

March 10, 2024

fpga, beginners, Lattice, Nandland Go, IceCube2, debian

Hi there, finally this week the nandland go board I ordered from the developer Russell Merrick a month ago arrived. It took a detour due to some shipping problems, but this is not about that, so. I had to face quite a few obstacles to get this running on my Debian Bullseye. Serial Connection via USB First of all, to connect to the board via FTDI usb as suggested on Debian Bullseye you have to first add your user to the group 'dialout', this is done like below: ...