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  • Gadget Factory hottest Cyber Monday deal ever!

    Hello Papilio fans! Here at Gadget Factory we are happy to announce a so special Cyber Monday discount! This year’s special deal is not like any other deal we made before and here is why: The Papilio DUO is marked down from $124 to $99 and on top of that you would get a Computing Shield…

  • Synth secrets revealed!

    Synthesizer fans are usually fond of programming them. In the following article, you’ll find out about the author’s approach to program every instrument at a time. Moreover, when reproducing the complex sounds of a particular instrument, the author breaks up the formulas into several articles and details how he got the results. Via hackaday.com

  • Controlling the output of a Papilio Pro with the wheel of a mouse

    https://youtu.be/N8pwx4Y7E30 There are tons of ways of creating a home-made microcontroller. Today we present a very detailed tutorial on how to achieve this using the rotary encoder from the scroll button of a mouse. This is part 5 of a series. The goal here is to achieve a constant frequency signal at the output of…

  • Up in the air with ArduPilot

    Up in the air with ArduPilot

    The first successful flight of a drone, or unmanned air vehicle (UAV) running on ArduPilot was recently announced. This UAV is powered by a Zynq, a dual-core ARM with an onboard FPGA. This FPGA makes the difference, leaving alone the first flight of a drone using ArduPilot. Using this FPGA allows the controller to handle…

  • MaSoCist setup on Papilio with TFT

    Hi, after a few years being forced to play with other targets, I revisited the Papilio One and ported my in-house ‘MaSoCist’ setup to it. Yet another solution, you might think. Well, the motivation was to go minimal, but configureable. The MaSoCist is different in that respect that it rather is an environment than an…

  • FCC: Open source router software is still legal—under certain conditions

    Looks like once again our government, while trying to deal with technology, is getting things wrong by trying to lock out the open source. Sounds to me like throwing the baby out with the bathwater…    South Park Studios With the Federal Communications Commission being criticized for rules that may limit a user’s right to install open source…

  • Interfacing a Chord Keypad to Papilio Duo FPGA Board

    Chorded keyboards are useful tools used to enter characters or commands formed by pressing several keys together. They are a bit like a piano. In the great blog post from Sustburbia, we will see how to efficiently connect one with an FPGA board, especially the Papilio DUO. The keypad is loosely based on the Microwriter – an early UK designed portable…

  • Gadget Factory Store Discount!

      Great news for everyone who has been asking about the Papilio Pro and some other products availability: Since we are out of stock on Papilio Pro boards we decided to take pre-orders and offer you the biggest discount to try to make up for the inconvenience. If you are willing to back order the Pro we are…