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  • Introducing Seeed Grove Wings! Available in the store now.

    We have some exciting new Wings in the store. These little guys open up the entire library of Grove modules available from Seeed Studio. There’s all kinds of cool stuff available and these are the gateway to connect to them to your Papilio FPGA board. We’ve priced them as low as we possibly could so…

  • New Tutorial – Draw a soft processor with ten serial ports using Papilio Schematic Library.

    Happy Friday, we have something new for you to take a look at over the weekend. Continuing on with our series of tutorials about the Papilio Schematic Library we have the next one ready. How to add an extra serial port to the ZPUino is a recurring question in the forums, so we thought we…

  • First release of the Papilio Schematic Library – draw a custom processor!

    Hello everyone, we have some exciting news today, the first release of the Papilio Schematic Library is ready to go! Ever find that you need just one more serial port, or SPI master, or PWM? Wouldn’t it be nice to add any peripheral you could imagine to your microcontroller? Sigma-Delta audio DAC’s, Stepper Controller’s, Commodore…

  • Papilio Loader on Mac OSX!

    Hey, hey! This is for all the Papilio users out there who are using Mac OS X! I decided to bring in some professional help who could make a nice Mac installer for the Papilio community. After posting a job on oDesk I was contacted by an awesome Mac Guru up in Canada who got…

  • New Tutorial: Install Xilinx ISE WebPack.

    Well, it’s been a slow couple of weeks for blog posts! Hoppasuarus had to take a break from blogging for a while and it has been a journey trying to fill in. In the meantime we’ve been finishing up a new learn website and have been lining up some new tutorials. The plan is to…

  • Progress on Duane Benson’s robot avatar! Navigation…

    Duane Benson, over at All Programmable Planet, is working on a robot avatar to rule the world! Or at least fill in for him at conferences. 🙂 He is documenting his progress in a series of articles entitled, “Discovering FPGA’s” which has been a great read. Here are some links if you want to catch…

  • Papilio Loader without root in Linux!

    Josh Bassett put together this nice tutorial on how to setup you Linux machine to use the Papilio Loader without the need for sudo or root access. Thank you Josh! For a guide on how to install the Papilio Loader on Linux take a look at our “Under Construction” Learning website. We still have some…

  • HowTo: Papilio Loader GUI on Linux

    The Papilio Loader Java GUI now runs on Linux. See how to install and run for yourself, this tutorial is for Ubuntu Linux. Download the Linux tar file from Gadget Factory download section and extract to your directory of choice. Ensure that libftdi-dev and the Java SDK is installed. In ubuntu do the following command:…