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  • FPGA Radio Project Using Papilio One 250k

    GadgetFactory.net forum user Ian, who goes by “monkeydoo” recently posted the details of a project he’s been working on for a software-defined FPGA radio receiver.  He’s using a Papilio One 250k, Gnu radio, and some good, old-fashioned ingenuity. We’re always really excited to see people’s projects using any of our hardware, and this one is…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Commodore 64 SID chip on Papilio FPGA!

    Inspired by Markus Gritsch’s HybridSID project, Alex takes it to the next level by replacing the hard to find SID chip with a soft SID running inside the Papilio FPGA Board! SID 6581 VHDL core on a Papilio FPGA board For more information and full source code visit the C64 SID project page at Papilio.cc

  • TV Output using a handfull of resistors on the Papilio FPGA board.

    NTSC/PAL TV and audio output using 14 resistors and a low pass audio filter. This design can be built in a couple minutes using parts from Radio Shack. Open Source VHDL code and EAGLE PCB design files are available.   For more details, source code, or to order a PCB for $8 visit the TV…

  • Something really cool for the Papilio and AVR8 is in the works!

    We can’t say what it is yet, but as a teaser here are a couple videos from Pepevi. Why is this a teaser? Because Pepevi is just now putting the final touches on his aforementioned tool!  

  • Pong on a scrolling LED sign? Yes! With a Papilio FPGA!

    Joel Owens put together this awesome video of the Papilio One driving a scrolling LED sign, but its not just driving text, its driving a Pong game! Wicked cool! We picked one of these scrolling LED gizmos from DealExtreme and would love to put it in the back of the car with a game of…