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Week 1 – Introduction to Papilio Series: Papilio Pins
Please join us for a weekly article that introduces you to a new aspect of the Papilio Platform. One thing that is missing from the Papilio Wiki is a collection of articles that introduce a new user to the types of things that can be done with the Papilio. This series will start building up…
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Papilio Arcade MegaWing Now On Sale At Seeed Studio For $19.99
Here at Gadget Factory we’re getting a little into the holiday spirit , and are happy to announce that the Papilio Arcade MegaWing is on sale for a special promotional price of only $19.99, down from $34.99 at Seeed Studio! This is a limited-time promotion – get yours now while supplies last! If you already own…
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Papilio Arcade User Guide v1.2 Available For Download!
Hi ho! We are pleased to announce that the Papilio Arcade now has an updated user guide (version 1.2) available for download! The new guide reflects additional games that are now supported, quickstart guides for ZPUino and Zetris for all you homebrew and indie game developers, more comprehensive information about the Arcade Megawing hardware itself, three…
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LED Matrix Animations Powered By Papilio
From time to time we like to check in with Papilio users and find out what they’re up to. This one comes to us from Tobiscorner’s blog: these guys are using a Papilio One to power some custom animations on an LED matrix they built. The video is pretty cool with what they’ve got running so far…
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Papilio One User Hack
Here at Gadget Factory, we not only make hackable hardware, we encourage the hacking of hardware – especially if it’s one of our boards! Papilio user Atomsoft describes his project to upgrade his Papilio One 250 board to a 500E chip. It’s a cool and easy project, and Atomsoft’s end result gives him a whole bunch of new…
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Virtual 7-Segment Display Generator for the Papilio Arcade
Here’s some more user-contributed code from reader Alex, this time on making a virtual 7-segment display on the Papilio Arcade in VHDL. The 7-segment display is outputted to VGA, and can be used to superimpose alphanumeric characters on top of any video already coming out on VGA. The position, size, and color of the…
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Papilio Bit File Loader GUI Now Available!
We are proud to announce that we have just released a GUI bit file loader for the Papilio! We already have a command line tool and a dialog based menu interface for loading bit files to the Papilio but the Papilio Loader GUI 2.0 beta is the first full GUI. (Stay tuned, Linux and Mac versions coming soon.)…
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Jeri Ellsworth recreates an audio codec chip using the Papilio.
Jeri Ellsworth picked up a new pinball machine that sounded horrible due to an obsolete chip that was blown, but for her that was no problem. It just gave her the opportunity to reverse engineer the faulty HC55564 audio compression chip and recreate it using an FPGA. The best part is that she used the…