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  • BitCoin Miner Library for DesignLab

    A new BitCoin library has been released for DesignLab over at the DesignLab library directory. Keep watching the directory for new libraries.               Mine BitCoin’s with your Papilio! It’s not terribly fast, but it’s still fun to mine your own bitcoins. via forum.gadgetfactory.net

  • Gameduino Library Released for DesignLab

    The Gameduino Library is now available for DesignLab! Check out the new library at the new DesignLab library directory. New libraries will be added every week!                 Gameduino is a really great Open Source FPGA project put together by James Bowman. It allows you to add graphics and…

  • UPDATE: DesignLab Libraries – FPGA circuits and sketches together!

    I’ve been hard at work on the DesignLab software and just wanted to share a video of how libraries will work in DesignLab. One of the major things we are doing with DesignLab is expanding on the Arduino IDE by coupling FPGA circuits to sketches. Every DesignLab project will be the combination of an FPGA…

  • Papilio Pro Spanish Review

    Pedro Hernandez is a cofounder of  Pcdemano.com a spanish website that makes reviews about the Arduino, raspberry pi, BananaPi and more.  He recently decided to add FPGA’s to that list and chose the Papilio Pro as an FPGA development board to start with. Today he posted his first review for an FPGA board and a nice introduction to FPGA’s for all the Spanish…

  • Hamster’s HDMI Input Wing in Action!

    Check this out, this is really cool. In this video Hamster grabs HDMI input from a special Wing that he designed and then converts it to 8-bit VGA format so he can send it out of the 8-bit VGA port of the LogicStart MegaWing! Take a look at this video of it in action: http://youtu.be/AvHPYmEQb04 Find…

  • Retrocade ADC Demo project for PlanAhead

    Papilio community member “Offroad” put together this nice little ADC demo for the RetroCade Synth. It puts the ADC chips through their paces and includes a PlanAhead project and source code.         Anyway, one result is an ADC demo that got out of necessity a little more polished than planned. Controls LED…

  • PLIP August 2014: Soft Core Processor with ZPUIno / ZAP / Papilio

    Colin O’Flynn makes a cool video showing the ZAP IDE in action! Watch as he makes a custom PWM peripheral, adds it into the ZPUino Soft Processor, and writes C code to control it. Jump to 37:10 mark to see it working! Full details at http://programmablelogicinpractice.com in August 2014 Issue of Circuit Cellar. Code is…

  • MAX5556 Audio DAC Wing For The Papilio

    Papilio user Fantasma25 has designed a new audio DAC wing and decided to share his work with us on the forum. The new wing It’s based on the MAX5556 DAC, it has an I2S-compatible interface and up to 50KHz sampling rate which is perfect for standard 44.1 and 48 KHz sampling rates and a resolution of 16 and 24 bits.…