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  • The Increasing Prevalence of FPGAs in the DIY Realm

    Chris Taylor, one of the awesome Engineers over at Sparkfun just posted a great article over at the new Programmable Planet blog. It’s a great read about the emergence of FPGA based DIY projects, and there is a good comment thread with a discussion about the best ways to help FPGA beginners get up to…

  • Jerri Ellsworth uses Papilio in C64 Keytar!

    Hello everyone, The amazing Jerri Ellsworth just released a video that show the internals of her C64 Bass Keytar, as seen at Maker Faire. We were happy to see that she used a Papilio board as the heart of the system!  It’s the same Papilio that is at the heart of the RetroCade Synth!  …

  • Two axis motion tracking with NTSC television output!

    Wicked is at again! He just can’t stop making progress on his Multi Color Object Tracking system that uses a Papilio One 500k board and a cheap $10 camera from SparkFun. After getting two axis motion tracking successfully working by adding two servo cores to his device Wicked added a TV Wing to his design and here is the results of…

  • New video for the servo tracking with the Papilio One!

    Wicked is at it again, this time with two axis motion tracking! it seems like Just the other day that he shared with us his nice breakthrough of Tracking Multi Color Object with a Papilio One 500k board and a $10 camera and then  he was able to do some servo tracking by adding a servo…

  • Wicked is now doing some servo tracking with his project!

    Hey everyone! Today we have another exciting video for the Multi Color Object Tracking project made by our Papilio user Wicked. As we told you in a previous post he used a Papilio One 500k and a cheap camera that he got from sparkfun for around $10 to realize the project. This time Wicked added…

  • New video for the Multi Color Object Tracking with the Papilio!

    Hey everyone! Good news for those who liked the Multi Color Object Tracking project made by our Papilio user Wicked. Today we got a new demonstration video that shows all the parts of the system connected to each other and the result displayed on a computer screen: If you have not read the last article…

  • Voelker’s spartcam displaying on LCD screen !

    Voelker is at it again! He just doesn’t stop making progress and adding new features to his breakthrough of getting a cheap $10 camera working with the Papilio. Lately he got his camera displaying on a 2.4 LCD screen and he’s able to get a real time full resolution view of the processed image: “i…

  • Multi Color Object Tracking with the Papilio One!

    Back in April Papilio user Voelker shared with us his project of Blob Tracking with a $10 Camera Module on the Papilio One. Today we got another similar project made by Papilio user Wicked who is able to track multiple objects of different colors using the Papilio One 500k. Wicked uses a camera that he…