Hacking
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Monster LED Game table being ported to the Papilio.
Tobias has a monster game table that he drives with an Arduino. He’s working in the forum on a port to the Papilio with a custom AVR8 user core to drive the display! Stop by his blog for more videos or the forum to check out the progress and add your feedback.
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JaxHax Video Diary: Non-technical Explanation of FPGA Technology
A non technical, conceptual explanation of FPGA technology using an analogy to rewritable CD technology. To learn more about the Papilio FPGA Shield for the Arduino project visit the Kickstarter project page.
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JaxHax Video Diary: SMT Soldering Without a Stencil
Jack builds some C/RAM (CPLD and SRAM) Wings and shows how to do SMT soldering without a stencil. JaxHax is a behind the scenes video diary of the work being done on the Open Source Papilio FPGA board. The Papilio is an Open Source community inspired by the Arduino and meant to ease people into…
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JaxHax Video Diary: BGA Soldering at Home
Jack attempts to perfect a technique to solder BGA chips at home using a pancake griddle. JaxHax is a behind the scenes video diary of the work being done on the Open Source Papilio FPGA board. The Papilio is an Open Source community inspired by the Arduino and meant to ease people into FPGA…
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JaxHax Video Diary: Papilio Linux Virtual Machine Introduction.
Jack gives a quick tour of the new Papilio Linux Virtual Machine created at SuseStudio.com. The Papilio VM includes the Papilio Loader, ZPUino toolchain, and ZPUino/Arduino IDE. The Linux Virtual Machine can be downloaded from the Papilio.cc website. Visit the Linux Virtual machine page for more information. JaxHax is a behind the scenes video…
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JaxHax Video Diary: Frogger!
Jack takes a look at the classic Arcade game Frogger running on the Papilio Arcade kit. JaxHax is a behind the scenes video diary of the work being done on the Open Source Papilio FPGA board. The Papilio is an Open Source community inspired by the Arduino and meant to ease people into FPGA…
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JaxHax Video Diary: Sneak Peek at the new VGA Core
Jack follows up the VGA simulator diary entry with a look at Alvaro’s VGA core running on the Papilio One. The end goal is a VGA core and c++ library that can be easily controlled by simple function calls from an Arduino sketch. JaxHax is a behind the scenes video diary of the work…
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JaxHax Video Diary: Sneak Peek at High Speed USB Wings
Video Diary of the behind the scenes work being done at Gadget Factory for the Papilio FPGA board. This provides a look at the new High Speed USB Wings.