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Papilio

  • Snake Game Created With The Minimum FPGA Resources!

    Hello FPGA and Arcade games fans! A couple of weeks ago we posted about how to play the Snake game on your FPGA in fore easy steps, our community member mkarlsson was not totally satisfied with the amount of FPGA resources the Verilog code uses and decided to rewrite the game to make it use less…

  • Are we witnessing the birth of the Gameduino 3?

    Over in the forums Ken Boak, James Bowman, and myself have been playing with a prototype shield (codename Evita) using the EVE FT812 chip and the Papilio DUO. Ken developed a nice board and James has been able to overclock the thing to output a nice crisp 1024×768 resolution through a VGA connector. Things have been coming…

  • Start Playing With Your Papilio Pro Logic Analyzer!

    https://youtu.be/D7FWUJoVaIc If right now you are kind of what is this guy talking about? Then you should check this and learn one of the almost infinite applications of a Papilio Pro. Today, we bring an article that explains one use for your brand new Papilio Pro Logic Analyzer. This is to capture the communication via…

  • Remember Playing Cowboys With A “Hand” Gun? Now It´s a Video Game

    Thanks to the work developed by a group of students at Cornell University, all you would need to do is to paint the tip of your finger in Red. This is not to fake that you are shooting that much that your finger is burning. This is because their project is based on this color.…

  • Here is How The Dark Side Got Started With Their Robot Army!

    Nowadays, you may be fed up of Star Wars jokes, baits and so on. I am sorry, I could not resist the temptation. Anyway, this time, at least, was not a joke nor a lie. Today´s article brings the real truth to you. If you want to build your own robot, as simple as you…

  • Want a Logic Analyzer?? Then just get a Papilio!

    https://youtu.be/pqCo8yAhLhQ Not long ago we published an article about using an Arduino UNO as a logic analyzer. As it couldn´t be otherwise, you can also do the same with a Papilio. And guess what? The Papilio-based logic analyzer is more powerful. No hype, just real numbers. You can achieve 32 channels, at 200 MHz, while…

  • New Tutorial – PWM outputs on Papilio FPGA

    In this tutorial you will learn how to use the PWM outputs of your Papilio FPGA board. For this particular step-by-step article, we have connected a button LED Wing to Wing slot AL. Basically you will be able to write a sketch that uses a PWM on any pin. We have only used 6 pins…

  • 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…