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New Papilio FPGA tutorial – Create custom clocks of any speed inside an FPGA with the Xilinx clocking wizard.
This tutorial shows you how to generate custom clocks inside your FPGA using the simple Clocking Wizard. Easily create clocks at any speeds such as 100Mhz, 75Mhz, or 50Mhz from the 32Mhz oscillator connected to your Papilio FPGA. The Xilinx clocking wizard easily generates custom clock speeds with all of the Global Clock buffers and supporting circuitry…
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DesignLab 1.0.8 and RetroCade 1.3 Released!
We just completed a new release of DesignLab and RetroCade Synth. DesignLab 1.0.8 has the following changes: DesignLab 1.0.8 – 2017.01.04 [DesignLab Libraries] -Added a new Video Audio Player example. -Fixes for RetroCade Synth libraries. RetroCade Synth 1.3 has the following changes: 1/4/2017 Version 1.3.1 -Fix for some LCDs that have contrast issues.…
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Article: Put the Watson AI into Your Raspberry Pi with IBM’s Free(ish) Embedded Development Platform
There is an interesting IoT/Artificial Intelligence platform from IBM called Project Intu. From the project page: A new, experimental program from IBM enables developers to imbue Internet of Things (IoT) systems — robots, drones, avatars and other devices — with the cognitive know-how of Watson. This definitely looks worth checking out to see what kinds…
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Free eBook: Neural networks and Deep Learning
One of the reasons for creating the GadgetBoxes was to start looking at ways to connect Artificial Intelligence tasks to IoT devices. So not only are we learning about all of the latest IoT technologies but also the latest in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Many of the latest breakthroughs have come from new techniques…
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Robots Game Implemented On The Papilio!
Inspired by the snake game our forum member Jaxartes has successfully managed to implement the Robots game on the Papilio Pro with the Arcade MegaWing using Verilog, his source code should be able to run on other FPGA platforms with comparable capacity. It displays in 1024×768 on a VGA monitor, and is controlled by keyboard. Or,…
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“Alexa, Make My ESP8266 Do Something” | Hackaday
Well here is an interesting hack that can be very useful for the NodeMCU version of the GadgetBox. Wouldn’t it be nice to control a GadgetBox with Alexa voice commands without a middleman like SmartThings? Well this hack seems to be the ticket! It is a library for the esp8266 that allows it to emulate…
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Using Amazon Alexa to control Ameba Arduino
Nice article on the steps it takes to setup an IoT device to use an Amazon Echo device. Can we adapt this to ESP8266 based devices? via Instructables
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DIY I2C Devices with ATtiny85 | Hackaday
Here is a very interesting article detailing how to use an ATtiny chip to turn any chip into an I2C device. This looks like a great technique to use with eCogs and the GadgetBox since it will free up valuable GPIO pins. via HackaDay
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