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  • Game On: PacManicMinerMan Released

    Forum user Jim, AKA “Baggers” wrote in on the Gadget Factory forums to let us know that he’s finished with his rewrite of Manic Miner for the Pac-Man hardware. We will be working the game into the Arcade Blaster app shortly! Hi All, If you remember, a while back I was working on making a…

  • LCD Hack With Monochrome Hitachi Screen & Papilio

    Gadget Factory forum user Alex received a junked old Hitachi screen from his buddy and decided to see if he could get it up and running. The screen is one of those older monochrome, low-resolution (256 x 128) green LCDs and is missing a controller chip. On the back of the display there are eight…

  • First Steps With Papilio One & Breadboard

    Dave over at Whiley.org just got his new Papilio One and decided to document some of the first steps he’s taking with the board. His endgame is to take the Arduino-based tank robot he’s made and eventually power it with his shiny new Papilio. These are some of his efforts so far. The question is:…

  • Pengo game running on the Papilio Pro.

    Papilio user and longtime Papilio arcade contributer Alex has managed to get the Pengo game running on his Papilio Pro board. Here is a quick demo video of the game running on the Papilio Pro: Alex writes, “The Pengo hardware is very close to the Pacman hardware but annoyingly it has just enough differences that…

  • User Created Audio Wing For Papilio

    Hi! We’re back from a nice, much-needed holiday break! We hope your holidays were wonderful for you and your families as well. We’ve got a great wing project here to show you, courtesy of JR from JR’s EE Blog, who has created his own audio wing for the Papilio hardware. JR writes, “For a while…

  • “Getting Started” Papilio + B/LED Wing Project

    Duane Benson over at ProgrammablePlanet.com has a nifty starter project for the Papilio and the B/LED wing that may help some new Papilio users get started on FPGAs. What you’ll need for this project are a Papilio board and the Button/LED Wing (click the links for more info). The objectives of this project are to:…

  • Awesome Flying Video Camera Stabilzer Project Using Papilio

    Papilio user Siou is hard at work on a killer project involving hardware and software image stabilization for a video camera “mounted to a flying machine.”  The project is built around a Papilio 250K  and uses a series of servo motors meant to correct the x, y, and z axes of rotation to stabilize the…

  • User Project: FM Radio Transmitter Built on Papilio

    We found an exciting and simple project yesterday on our forums that describes how to  turn your Papilio into an FM radio transmitter using nothing more than 60 lines of VHDL code and a piece of wire. The end result is an FPGA-based transmitter bleeping out “SOS” in Morse Code over FM radio. Longtime Gadget Factory…