[ Thanks to M.
Fioretti for this link. ]
“Making custom integrated circuits at home or school that are
more powerful and much more flexible than the popular Open Source
Arduino platform is still a relatively unknown concept. This
activity, however, is not just much more affordable and easy today
than just a few years ago thanks to FPGAs: it may also have
important social and educational consequences. The first part sums
up the current status of certain technologies and their unique
nature; you should really read that first unless you already know
what Arduino and FPGAs are. This page discusses why and how to
spread knowledge of those technologies through society. “