Gadget Factory
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“Getting Started” Papilio + B/LED Wing Project
Duane Benson over at ProgrammablePlanet.com has a nifty starter project for the Papilio and the B/LED wing that may help some new Papilio users get started on FPGAs. What you’ll need for this project are a Papilio board and the Button/LED Wing (click the links for more info). The objectives of this project are to:…
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Awesome Flying Video Camera Stabilzer Project Using Papilio
Papilio user Siou is hard at work on a killer project involving hardware and software image stabilization for a video camera “mounted to a flying machine.” The project is built around a Papilio 250K and uses a series of servo motors meant to correct the x, y, and z axes of rotation to stabilize the…
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Some Cool Ideas For Hacking With The RetroCade
Hola, amigos! We found some cool videos on YouTube showing what other folks are doing with FPGA audio synthesis that we’d like to share with you. You may find some inspiration/ hacking ideas herein; these are just some of things that are possible with FPGA synths (such as our own RetroCade Synth)! There are some…
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Papilio Pro Hardware Guide Now Available, Papilio Pro Boards Now For Sale At Seeed Studio
Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, lend an ear as we’ve got a wonderful announcement: The Papilio Pro Hardware Guide is now available for your perusal on the site, and the Papilio Pro hardware itself is up for sale, $84.99 at Seeed Studio. All as of today! This is my favorite part – taking out my…
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User Project: FM Radio Transmitter Built on Papilio
We found an exciting and simple project yesterday on our forums that describes how to turn your Papilio into an FM radio transmitter using nothing more than 60 lines of VHDL code and a piece of wire. The end result is an FPGA-based transmitter bleeping out “SOS” in Morse Code over FM radio. Longtime Gadget Factory…
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RetroCade Hardware Guide and User Guide Available Now; Final Hardware Launching Soon!
In anticipation of our final RetroCade Synth hardware launching within the next couple of weeks, we wanted to take a minute and point everyone in the direction of the updated RetroCade Hardware Guide and the RetroCade User Guide: RetroCade Hardware Guide RetroCade User Guide These webpages are “works in progress” at this point, but are being…
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ROMGen v3.01 r4
Papilio user Felix has started a new forum topic to share with us his his latest release of the romgen tool. He was able to add new functionality to do some simple bitswaps and handle different encryption types: “by including the -ini switch on the command line, it is capable of doing some simple bitswaps on…
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8 digit frequency counter project quick update.
After designing a 8 digit frequency counter using a Dx display and a Papilio One board hamster finally got a Digilent GPS PMOD and completed the project by making a GPS referenced 100MHz frequency counter and everything is working as expected 🙂 Here is a picture of the GPS referenced 100MHz frequency counter in action: Dont…