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  • Open Source Hardware Advances Science,Technology

            Papilio One spotted in article about Open Source Hardware! Developments in open source are not just exciting as viable and marketable options, but as a real boon for innovation. Growing interest along with shared goals to create and better developments in science and technology inspired a team at CERN to create…

  • HDMI Light V2

    I was browsing HackADay when I came across an article called, “FPGA Ambilight Clone Packs a Ton of Features“. I immediately got excited and thought, “I hope we can port this to the Papilio.” When I opened the article I saw to my great delight that the project WAS done on the Papilio! Even better…

  • Robot Vision: Detecting Obstacles with FPGAs and line lasers

    Check out this FPGA project that uses a camera module and laser to do obstacle and cliff detection. It’s Wishbone compatible so we should be easily able to import this project into DesignLab.   Somewhere down the road, you’ll find that your almighty autonomous robot chassis is going to need some sensor feedback. Otherwise, that next…

  • Using A Raspberry Pi As A Commodore 64 Disk Drive

    The Commodore 64’s influence continues to echo. There’s a great throwback project going on over at Insentricity involving an R-Pi being used as a disk drive for the Commodore 64. Check out the vid for a nice look at the project! I’ve made some more progress on my software that allows the Raspberry Pi to…

  • DIY IR Object-Detection Module On The Cheap

    If you’ve ever needed some kind of infrared (IR) object detection sensor for one of your projects, here’s a simple and cheap way to make one. These IR sensor modules can be useful for small DIY robotics projects, or really whatever you can dream up! The main concept is simple , the IR LED keeps…

  • ZX Spectrum With HDMI Out On The Pipistrello

    Jozsef Laszlo, AKA “joco” has come up with a very good implementation of the 1982 ZX Spectrum computer using his Papilio-based Pipistrello board. Joco says he wanted to do the ZX Spectrum project to “prove that a Spectrum clone can have a modern HDMI video output. Pipistrello was a good choice for this, because it…

  • 8 channel USB Digital Signal Injector

    Here is an interesting project we found over at jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com the project is called Kidogo, it is an 8 channel USB Digital Signal Injector. Definitely worth a look: “Kidogo system consists with Signal Editor and USB interface module. Kidogo Player is the Signal Editor of the Kidogo system and it can support up to 512…

  • Quick & Easy – Getting Started With GitHub

    GitHub is a giant online storehouse for archiving and sharing code.  We’ve got a bunch of code available on GitHub for many items of Gadget Factory interest that we’re sure you’ll find useful in your endeavors: Gadget Factory top-level repository Gadget Factory Wing PCB designs Papilio Arcade source code AVR8 source code We also came across…