Gadget Factory
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SoundPuddle: Art installation driven by ZPUino on Papilio!
John English of Boulder Engineering Studio put together an art installation titled, “Sound Puddle” for the Apogaea Festival in Colorado. Since he needed to drive 1664 RGB LED’s with 10 SPI masters, all at the same time, he decided on using the Papilio FPGA board. Alvaro Lopes heard about the project and was quick to…
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Introducing the RetroCade Synth! A Papilio based chiptune synth on Kickstarter now!
It’s been quiet on the blog for the last couple of weeks, which is usually a sign that something big is in the works! 🙂 In this case, we’ve been working overtime to put together a Kickstarter project for the RetroCade Synth. The RetroCade Synth puts classic arcade audio chips like the Commodore SID and…
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“Crazy Ivan” gives permission to include Mr. Do’s Nightmare with the Papilio Arcade!
Hey everyone, great news! The author of Mr. Do’s Nightmare, Crazy Ivan, gave us permission to include his game with the Papilio Arcade. This means that we can provide you with a bit file that already includes the ROMs! This was very generous of him and we are very thankful for his kind contribution. We…
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Jet Set Willy remake for ZPUino running on the Papilio One
After releasing the ZPUino 1.0 Alvaro Lopes has managed to add a VGA adaptor to his processor and then he wanted to make something special to test the adaptor and try to display some nice graphics. Then he got the idea to remake one of his favourite games that he enjoyed so much back in…
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ZX Spectrum Manic Miner on PacMan Hardware!
Papilio user Baggers made a nice arcade game named “PacManicMinerMan” which is an Open Source recreation of the ZX Spectrum ManicMiner game running on the PacMan Arcade Hardware. And since the classic Pac-Man arcade hardware has been ported to the Papilio Arcade kit the PacManicMinerMan game should run perfectly on it! Here is a demo…
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Bomb Jack game implemented in the Papilio Plus
Alex is at it again! It seems like just the other day that he shared with us his nice project of getting one of his favorite Arcade games “Bomb Jack” working on a prototype Papilio Plus board. As we told you in a previous post the VHDL implementation was not complete and the project still…
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3-Axis IMU working with a Papilio One
Hey everyone! Here is a new exciting project that has just been realized by Papilio user Laurent Siou, he has successfully made a 3-Axis IMU with a Papilio One 250k board!! Laurent’s goal was to realize an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) for a camera and take in-flight stabilized videos. His particular design is comprised of…
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Sega Master System on the Papilio Plus
Papilio user Ben Leperchey has successfully managed to run a Sega Master System on a Papilio Plus prototype and he has started an interesting topic in the forum to share with us his work. If you want to try this project on your Papilio Plus prototype you must have these wings: [checklist] Joystick wing VGA wing…