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  • SPI VGA Controller working with the Papilio One

    This month we’ve seen many Papilio users sharing with us some pretty good projects on our forum and this is one of these exciting works, the idea was to make an SPI VGA Controller that works in the Papilio One.. Vhdlnerd has designed a VGA controller that primarily Targets the Papilio One 250k board but…

  • Nice Megawing Design for the Spartcam

    Voelker is at it again! After getting a cheap $10 camera working with the Papilio and then getting the blob tracking to work with it… He continues to make progress and this time he has designed a nice megawing for the spartcam. As you can see in the images above he put the papilio board…

  • Coming Soon! Atari 2600 on the Papilio Arcade.

    Good news, the Open Source Atari 2600 project, A2601, is now working on the Papilio Arcade hardware. We got some time to work on the NTSC to VGA conversion and we have some video of the A2601 with VGA output in action. We hope to have the code cleaned up and ready for release very…

  • Blob Tracking with $10 Camera Module on Papilio

    Voelker is at it again! It seems like just the other day that he shared with us his breakthrough of getting a cheap $10 camera working with the Papilio. Who needs rest when there are so many exciting Computer Vision applications to be hacked, not Voelker, he’s hard at work on Sobel Filters and Blob…

  • Papilio as a YM2149 MIDI Synthesizer!

    While browsing through past HackaDay articles looking for projects to spark the imagination we noticed a trend. It seems that people are keen on connecting the audio chips from old computer and arcade games to their Arduino! Especially the YM2149 which is a popular audio chip that was used in the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum…

  • Stand Alone YM Music Player with ZPUino 1.0 release.

    Hey everyone! To celebrate the release of the new MIDI Audio Wing and ZPUino 1.0 we are releasing a slew of new audio examples. In fact, we made a whole new Wiki dedicated to audio applications for the Papilio. Check it out over at http://audio.GadgetFactory.net. The first example is a stand alone ym player that…

  • New Wing: MIDI Audio Wing

    For anyone who wants to explore FPGA synthesizers, make MIDI controlled instruments, or just play with audio in general this Wing is for you! Available now in the Gadget Factory store for just $14.99 We’ve been playing with audio for a couple months now and are finally ready to release this hardware and several exciting…

  • Arcade MegaWing back in stock at Seeed Studio

    Great news! The Arcade MegaWing is back in stock at Seeed Studio and can be purchased for the low price of $19.99. Or you can bundle it with the Papilio One 500K FPGA and get both for $84.99. The Arcade MegaWing gives you everything you need to recreate and hack on classic and homebrew arcade…