Open Source News
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A SoundPuddle MegaWing to control 10,000 LEDs with Papilio!
After a successful run of the SoundPuddle at Apogaea Festival John English of Boulder Engineering Studio has shifted his focus toward building a new circuit board to run the installation. John is using a Papilio One board to control the installation and connect all the parts of the system which is composed of a microphone…
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The Gadget Factory is giving away a bare Papilio One PCB every week!
Here at Gadget Factory we are happy to announce that we are giving away a bare Papilio One PCB every week! If you ever wanted to practice some surface mount soldering here is your chance to get a Papilio One PCB for absolutely free! For your chance at snagging a PCB, register in our…
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ZPUino 1.0 version is now officially released
We are pleased to be working with Alvaro Lopes to coordinate the release of the ZPUino 1.0 with the release of our new Audio MIDI Wing. The new ZPUino release is packed with so many goodies that it is enabling a whole new breed of Audio and Video applications for the Papilio! “ZPUino 1.0 is…
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ZPUino 1.0 Release Coming Soon!
The ZPUino is a 32 bit processor running at 100Mhz with an integrated VGA display adapter and YM2149 sound processor. Everything is controlled by a sketch and an easy to use VGA library from the Arduino IDE. The good news is that a 1.0 version of the ZPUino will be released soon probably before the…
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Bruce Perens Mentions Papilio And Bus Pirate In Linux Keynote Speech
(Jump to 39:04 on the vid to hear Bruce mention Dangerous Prototypes Bus Pirate, and to 41:04 when he talks about our Papilio!) Open source guru Bruce Perens gave a keynote speech recently at the major 2012 Linux conference linux.conf.au just this past week in Ballarat, Australia. If you’ve got an hour to spare, the whole video is certainly…
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Quick Note: ZPUino Is Looking For Alpha Testers
If any of you would like to be a part of the alpha testing crew for ZPUino, Alvie over at ZPUino is looking for some good men and women. If anyone is interested in helping test the upcoming 1.0 version of ZPUino, please drop him a line here. Cool!
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Joel Owens, Papilio Enthusiast, Featured Engineer at EEWeb.
Joel Owens has done some really cool projects with the Papilio One board that have been featured on the Papilio front page. He was recently interviewed by EEWeb as one of their featured Engineers. It’s a very interesting read where he talks about his background and his most recent work with FPGA’s. It’s really nice…
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Dangerous Prototypes Open 7400 Logic Contest!
This is right up any FPGA enthusiasts alley, Dangerous Prototypes is having an Open 7400 Logic Contest contest to see who can put together the best project utilizing 7400 series logic chips. There are many great prizes including an Arcade MegaWing with a Papilio One 500K FPGA board that we will be giving away as…