Nandland.com
Free tutorials, videos, and projects for learning FPGAs, Verilog, and VHDL.
Boston area
Russell Merrick
Embedded firmware engineer, FPGA educator, and electronic music producer.
Music
Techno, progressive house, and trance
Russell Merrick makes techno, progressive house, and trance from Boston, written nights and weekends by a working embedded engineer. His sound is retro-futurist optimism: driving, warm, and hopeful. Made in Ableton with Serum.
Orbital Overdrive
Listen on Spotify, and follow for new releases.
FPGA education
Nandland
NANDLAND.com is Russell’s FPGA education site, with free tutorials, videos, and projects that teach digital design in Verilog and VHDL. It also sells the Go Board, a beginner FPGA development board he designed around the Lattice iCE40 HX1K, and his book Getting Started with FPGAs from No Starch Press.
A beginner FPGA board
Designed around the Lattice iCE40 HX1K, with a full tutorial series to go with it.
Getting Started with FPGAs
A beginner-friendly introduction to FPGAs, published by No Starch Press.
Open source
Projects
Reroll
Local sample and Serum loops for Ableton. Turn your own collection into inspiring loops, then hand off to the DAW.
Resampler
Live melody-aware loop chopper for Ableton.
Hoarder
A Splice-style browser for samples already on disk, including local folders and Splice downloads.
FPGA Synthesizer
An open-source FPGA synthesizer built on the Nandland Go Board (iCE40 HX1K).
The Secret of the Isle
A top-down browser game.
Washing machine
Reverse engineering my Maytag front load washer.
Experience
Work
TODO
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Say hello
Contact
The best place to find Russell online right now is GitHub.