Jack Gassett
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Arcade MegaWing back in stock at Seeed Studio
Great news! The Arcade MegaWing is back in stock at Seeed Studio and can be purchased for the low price of $19.99. Or you can bundle it with the Papilio One 500K FPGA and get both for $84.99. The Arcade MegaWing gives you everything you need to recreate and hack on classic and homebrew arcade…
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Coming Soon: Papilio LogicStart MegaWing
The LogicStart MegaWing is coming soon to a Gadget Factory store near you! We just finished verification of the board and the first production run is being initiated as we speak. In preparation we put together this video that gives a look at the LogicStart MegaWing in action. What is the LogicStart MegaWing? The LogicStart…
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Week 3 – Papilio Introduction Series: VGA Output!
Welcome to week three of the Papilio Introduction Series. This week we are covering one of the most exciting features of the Papilio – VGA output with the ZPUino Soft Processor. “Did you know that with the raw power of the Papilio’s FPGA, the ZPUino, and a VGA Wing you can write sketches with VGA…
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Week 2 – Papilio Introduction Series: Move Pins on the Fly
Welcome to week two of the Papilio Introduction Series. This week we are covering one of the key features of the Papilio – the ability to shift peripherals to any I/O pin. “Possibly the most exciting feature of the Papilio is the ability to shift peripheral functionality to any pin at any time, completely on…
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Week 1 – Introduction to Papilio Series: Papilio Pins
Please join us for a weekly article that introduces you to a new aspect of the Papilio Platform. One thing that is missing from the Papilio Wiki is a collection of articles that introduce a new user to the types of things that can be done with the Papilio. This series will start building up…
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News: EagleUp For Viewing Hardware Designs In Google SketchUp
[screencast url=”http://www.screencast.com/t/uwejMD0WoJ6″ width=”600″ height=”300″] Here’s an interesting article we found on Hackaday about a software solution called EagleUp, which can open your PCB designs in SketchUp and will give you a 3-d rendering of your hardware. “This is a wonderful way to make sure that your enclosure designs are going to work without needing to wait for…
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Jeri Ellsworth recreates an audio codec chip using the Papilio.
Jeri Ellsworth picked up a new pinball machine that sounded horrible due to an obsolete chip that was blown, but for her that was no problem. It just gave her the opportunity to reverse engineer the faulty HC55564 audio compression chip and recreate it using an FPGA. The best part is that she used the…
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Experimentation with TFT Touchscreens!
There have been some discussions in the Papilio forum about getting some low cost TFT touchscreens working with the Papilio. Lee has been working on some touchscreens and that inspired us to pick up work on a Prototype Wing that we had laying around. We were able to get the touchscreen up and running with…