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  • Papilio Arduino IDE 1.5a Now Available

    Hi!  So this is just a quick note to let everyone know about an important update for the Papilio Arduino IDE – version 1.5a is out and ready to download!  This updated version integrates the Papilio Loader and AVR8 Soft Processor into the Arduino IDE to allow seamless usage of the Arduino IDE with the…

  • Game On: PacManicMinerMan Released

    Forum user Jim, AKA “Baggers” wrote in on the Gadget Factory forums to let us know that he’s finished with his rewrite of Manic Miner for the Pac-Man hardware. We will be working the game into the Arcade Blaster app shortly! Hi All, If you remember, a while back I was working on making a…

  • LCD Hack With Monochrome Hitachi Screen & Papilio

    Gadget Factory forum user Alex received a junked old Hitachi screen from his buddy and decided to see if he could get it up and running. The screen is one of those older monochrome, low-resolution (256 x 128) green LCDs and is missing a controller chip. On the back of the display there are eight…

  • ZPUino Linux Framebuffer

    Ah, the start of another week.  Let’s see what’s in the news around here. Well, we’re getting word from Alvie over at his ZPUino page that we are getting closer to a Linux implementation of ZPUino.  The picture above is an example of a video framebuffer running on physical hardware.  ZPUino also now has video output…

  • First Steps With Papilio One & Breadboard

    Dave over at Whiley.org just got his new Papilio One and decided to document some of the first steps he’s taking with the board. His endgame is to take the Arduino-based tank robot he’s made and eventually power it with his shiny new Papilio. These are some of his efforts so far. The question is:…

  • Pengo game running on the Papilio Pro.

    Papilio user and longtime Papilio arcade contributer Alex has managed to get the Pengo game running on his Papilio Pro board. Here is a quick demo video of the game running on the Papilio Pro: Alex writes, “The Pengo hardware is very close to the Pacman hardware but annoyingly it has just enough differences that…

  • User Created Audio Wing For Papilio

    Hi! We’re back from a nice, much-needed holiday break! We hope your holidays were wonderful for you and your families as well. We’ve got a great wing project here to show you, courtesy of JR from JR’s EE Blog, who has created his own audio wing for the Papilio hardware. JR writes, “For a while…

  • Additive Synthesis Using Altera DE2-70 FPGA

    We found an interesting video on YouTube demonstrating additive synthesis on an FPGA – in this case an Altera DE2 board. These guys have set up a MIDI controller keyboard to send note-on, note-off, and velocity for each note played to the DE2. The DE2 has been programmed with VHDL to decode the MIDI messages,…