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  • New Encoder Wing For Papilio – One Day Only Sale!

    Hi there everyone! We are excited to finally have the brand-new Encoder Wing in stock at the Gadget Factory store! We are offering this awesome new product at a special introductory price of $11.99 for the first day only.  That day is today!  I would say take advantage of the sale, because tomorrow the Encoder…

  • Papilio DUO Live on Kickstarter!

    The Papilio DUO Kickstarter just went live this morning! There are still some early bird specials to be had so don’t wait, check it out today… The Papilio DUO is the latest Papilio board that combines a Spartan 6 FPGA with an Arduino Leonardo compatible chip! It’s like have a circuit lab connected to an…

  • Papilio DUO: Something big is coming next week…

    We are pleased to announce that we will be launching a Kickstarter campaign for the Papilio DUO on Wednesday the 28th! We just got final approval from Kickstarter and are just waiting for a few final pieces to fall into place. 🙂 In the meantime, we have a preview of the Kickstarter online so you…

  • MiSoC (successor to Milkymist SOC) example for Papilio Pro

    Sébastien Bourdeauducq, the creator of the MilkyMist FPGA and SOC, was kind enough to put together an example project of his new MiSoC system for the Papilio Pro. It is a Python based system and it looks really great, check out the specs: LatticeMico32 CPU, modified to include an optional MMU (experimental). There is a work-in-progress…

  • socz80: A Z80 retro microcomputer for the Papilio Pro FPGA board

    Will put together this amazing project that will knock your socks off! Its a Z80 implementation for the Papilio Pro that runs CP/M, MP/M, and UZI operating systems. It’s based on the T80 core from OpenCores and has some great additions such as using Hamster’s SDRAM controller for heaps of memory. This may be the…

  • Yet Another VGA generator by Offroad

    Offroad put together a cool project that can be used to visualize and debug your projects. Think of it as adding a boat load of RGB LED’s to your project. 🙂 There is full source code included in the forum post.    

  • Hamster uses a Papilio Pro to test out the Logic Analyzer feature on his Rigol 1102D

            Hamster puts together an interesting to read wiki page that puts his new Rigol 1102D to the test. He uses his trusty Papilio Pro to generate the test signals and includes full VHDL source and some great screen grabs from the Rigol 1102D. The Rigol 1102D looks to be perfect for…

  • Animated VGA Shapes – No Framebuffer

    Check out this cool project that Corey Kosak published in the forum: Here’s a project that draws animated shapes on a VGA screen without using any memory! It even includes collision detection. I thought I’d share my third project with you all. I got sort of obsessed with the idea of driving the VGA protocol…