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Recycled junked laptop LCD driven by the Papilio Plus
Papilio user Alex has managed to drive an LCD screen with his Papilio Plus Board. He used an old broken laptop that was left unused for a long time and took the LCD apart which is a 15″ panel with 1280×800 pixel native resolution to try to drive it with the Papilio Plus FPGA board and…
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BenL’s first cut at a Real Time 3D Display Core!
Ben Leperchey is at it again with a 3D display core on the Papilio Plus FPGA board. He just posted the first bit file to the Gadget Factory forum:
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New Papilio FPGA based vision system!
Three months ago Papilio user Wicked has shared with us his breackthrough of Multi Color Object Tracking with a Papilio One 500k and a cheap camera that he got from sparkfun for around $10, since then he has gone crazy with his project! He managed to do some servo tracking with the project and then he…
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“Mariposa.NET” an alternative GUI to the Arcade Blaster App!
emuDrache is one of those who really hate the famous programming language and computing platform “Java” and unfortunately for him the Papilio Arcade Blaster App which is a multi-platform application that simplifies using Papilio Arcade kit was done in Java. It’s mainly for this reason that he decided to create Mariposa.NET as an alternative GUI…
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Jeri Ellsworth shows off homemade touch controller – Papilio spotted in video!
The incredible Jeri Ellsworth just uploaded another Youtube video, this time she makes a touchpad from scratch! Its very good information to tuck in the back of your mind in case you ever need to hack up a touchpad. The best part is there is a Papilio running the demo that she put together. 🙂
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“CheapScope” Virtual Logic Analyser for the Papilio One
Hey everyone! Today we got a very interesting project for you, our forum user Hamster has started a forum topic to share with us his new project. He designed a Virtual Logic Analyser for the Papilio One that could be used on any Xilinx FPGA where you can gain access to one spare I/O pin.…
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Pipistrello: A Papilio format “Uber Board” with HDMI and BGA.
Papilio user Magnusk made a very interesting FPGA board that he calls Pipistrello, in the past he used some different papilio boards and he like them but he wanted a board with HDMI interface, lots of RAM for buffering, high-speed USB for data streaming and SD-card for data storage. So the only option left was to make…
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SoundPuddle: Help Support a Papilio based Art Installation on Kickstarter.
John English, of Boulder Engineering Studio, has put together an amazing art installation the uses a Papilio to drive 1664 RGB LED’s! The SoundPuddle uses the ZPUino Soft Processor to implement 16 SPI masters, a 1024 point FFT, and a VGA like framebuffer interface to drive it all from a sketch! An ADC connected to…