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  • Status Update On Papilio-Based Robot Avatar Project

    Here’s a great follow-up on the progress of Duane Benson’s Papilio-based tele-presence avatar project which we covered here on the blog a little while back. Looks like he is moving forward with the overall implementation in strides. Referring to the photo above, Duane gives us the run-down from a hardware standpoint: Toward the lower-left, we…

  • Mains Hum Filter Using Papilio/ Logic Start

    Hamster has a new project up over at his Hamsterworks site, and he’s got code running both for the Papilio/ Logic Start combination, and for the Arduino. In this project, he has created a filter that can filter out commonly encountered “mains hum” frequencies up to the Nyquist limit of half the sample rate for…

  • Firing Up The RetroCade Synth: First Impressions

    We found another great article by Phillip Howard from Raspberry Pi @ Gadgetoid, this time on Getting Started With The Papilio RetroCade Synth. In the image above, you can see the RedroCade MegaWing plugged into its host Papilio Pro. This is the setup that Phillip used for the purposes of his article. After some initial…

  • An Interesting Take On FPGAs From A R-Pi Point Of View

    From Raspberry Pi @ Gadgetoid comes an interesting overview on FPGAs – in particular, our flagship Papilio-series dev boards. It’s refreshing to read Phillip Howard’s angle on all this, as it is decidedly from an Arduino/ Raspberry Pi angle on things. The article is a well-written synopsis and can serve its purpose well for those…

  • Introducing ZAP IDE – ZPUino And AVR8 Together At Last!

    Howdy, hacker types!  What’s new, you ask?  Well, I’m happy to say there’s a cool little development coming your way called ZAP IDE. What’s ZAP IDE you ask? Why, it’s the first version of the ZAP (ZPUino Arduino Papilio) Soft Processor IDE, that’s what! It’s basically ZPUino and AVR8, all in one. How about more…

  • New Products In The GF Store Available Now

    Hola! Just wanted to drop you guys a quick note about some new products available in the Gadget Factory store. We’ve got a new USB hub that features 4 ports (all hot-swappable), is fully compatible with USB 1.1/2.0, and supports 480Mbits full speed. $6.99 each. (Pictured above) We’ve also got you covered on cables with…

  • Papilio Pro Breathes New Life Into Old Laptop Display

    Papilio Pro user James Glanville recently posted a great project that he’s been working on, over at the Gadget Factory forums. He was nice enough to share his code and some photos for the project, in which he has got his Papilio Pro hooked up to an old laptop LCD display that he had sitting around the workshop.…

  • Listen: Jack’s Presentation From Design West 2013

    Happy Friday, gadgetheads! We’ve got an audio treat for you today, from last week’s industry event Design West Expo 2013 in San Jose.  Our founder and CEO Jack Gassett gave his first  presentation ever, on Designing an Open Source Arduino/FPGA Development Board.  There were lots of people at the show that we recognized from the forums…