The board page on welland and ps1

Each part of a board’s page on welland.fpgas.online and ps1.fpgas.online, and what it does. Every board type has the same page; only its heading names the board. The Tiny Tapeout boards on tinytapeout.fpgas.online have their own page, with the Tiny Tapeout Commander in it.

An Acorn’s page on welland, 11 Oct 2026. Each part is a row of the table below. The password in Accessing directly is hidden in this picture.

The parts of the page on welland

Part	What it does	What to know
The list page	/fpgas/ on the site lists the boards, each with its host, its board type and a camera thumbnail. “Use this FPGA” opens the board’s page.	A board is listed while its host has checked in lately and its check passed in this boot.
Terminal	A shell on the board’s host, logged in as pi, with nothing to type to get in.	Each login opens a window in a shared session, so another visitor may be typing too.
reset ssh	Connects the terminal again.	The terminal also connects again by itself when the host’s ssh server comes up.
Upload	A file chooser and an “upload” button. The file goes into /home/pi/Uploads/ on the host, under its own name.	It does not load the file into the FPGA; a command in the terminal does that. A file of the same name is overwritten. A file can be up to 64 MB.
Camera	A live view of the board.	The camera on a board says what it shows and how to watch it outside the page.
Reset	“Turn it off and on again: Reset” cuts the host’s power and restores it.	How to reset a board. Everything written on the host is gone after it.
Check PoE	Writes the host’s power state in the status box, for example status: PoE on.	It also runs once when the page opens.
ping	Sends three pings to the host and writes each reply line in the status box.
Status box	Shows the power state, the host’s boot messages, the ping replies and the page’s connection to the site.	The text field and “Send” post a test message to everyone on this board’s page.
reconnect, reset video player	Connect the status box again; reload the slower camera stream.
Accessing directly	The ssh and scp commands for your own machine, and the camera’s address.	How to reach a board with your own ssh client.
Demos	Four buttons that type commands into the terminal. They run scripts from ~/Demos and ~/ci/t1.	The scripts are written for the Arty A7 (site issue #104).
Useful links	Links at the bottom of the page.	They are for the Arty A7 (site issue #105).

Whatever you write on a host, uploads included, is gone after its next reset.

Where ps1’s page differs

ps1.fpgas.online runs an older version of the page.

Part	On ps1
The list page	Lists hosts by name, with no board type.
Camera	No low-latency view, only the slower stream, and no box saying when there is no picture.
Check PoE, Reset	Their answer goes to the browser’s console, not to the status box.
Status box	Does not connect again by itself; use “reconnect”.
Accessing directly	The ssh command has no -4, and the login banner prints the password.