[HN Gopher] Show HN: Icepi Zero - The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equ...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Show HN: Icepi Zero - The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent
        
       I've been hacking away lately, and I'm now proud to show off my
       newest project - The Icepi Zero!  In case you don't know what an
       FPGA is, this phrase summarizes it perfectly: "FPGAs work like
       this. You don't tell them what to do, you tell them what to BE."
       You don't program them, but you rewrite the circuits they contain!
       So I've made a PCB that carries an ECP5 FPGA, and has a raspberry
       pi zero footprint. It also has a few improvements! Notably the 2
       USB b ports are replaced with 3 USB C ports, and it has multiple
       LEDs.  This board can output HDMI, read from a uSD, use a SDRAM and
       much more. I'm very proud the product of multiple weeks of work.
       (Thanks for the pcb reviews on r/PrintedCircuitBoard )  (All the
       sources on github under an open source license :D)  PS. See some
       more pics on reddit
       https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/1kwxvk8/ive_made_my_f...
        
       Author : Cyao
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2025-05-28 13:31 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | aappleby wrote:
       | Take my money already. :D
        
       | NoOn3 wrote:
       | Another project like FPGA in "Pi Zero" format was fleaFPGA_Ohm
       | (http://fleasystems.com/fleaFPGA_Ohm.html).
        
         | duskwuff wrote:
         | Yep - unfortunately, that never appears to have been available
         | for purchase outside the Indiegogo campaign.
        
       | teamonkey wrote:
       | No crowdsupply?
        
         | Cyao wrote:
         | After the amount of emails i got asking if i sell the boards, I
         | just applied to crowdsupply :P
        
           | lukevp wrote:
           | I have no idea about this product category but am interested
           | in learning more about FPGAs. What is the ballpark price
           | point that something like this would be? Are we talking $100
           | or $1000?
        
       | deivid wrote:
       | Can you sell these assembled? Using Tang nano for learning right
       | now, but the tooling and docs situation is not great
        
         | Graziano_M wrote:
         | The icebreaker is great and easy to get up and running, plus it
         | has pmod headers which makes it easy to add add-ons.
        
           | duskwuff wrote:
           | Yep, and I love it. That's a much smaller (and lower pin
           | count) FPGA than this ECP5, though.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2025-05-30 23:00 UTC)