Beginning FPGA: Programming Metal : Your brain on hardware This book is for those who have tinkered a bit with Arduino or Raspberry Pi and want to get more hands on with hardware or for those new to electronics and you just want to dive in. You dont need an electronics engineering degree or even any programming experience to get the most out of With Beginning FPGA: Programming Metal. Just bring your curiosity and your Field Programmable Gate Array. In this book youll be using the MicroNova Mercury a very affordable and breadboard friendly FPGA development board to create a pressure sensor an air quality sensor and just for fun the KITT car display from Knight Rider. Along the way youll learn the theory behind FPGAs and electronics including the math and logic you need to understand whats happening all explained in a fun friendly and accessible way. It also doesnt hurt that youll be learning VHDL a hardware description languae that is also an extremely marketable skill