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Cool QR Code Clock On Graphical LCD
Sometimes its good to see what other people are up to on their projects. It can serve to spark an idea for your own designs, and this one here is just plain cool. This QR code clock is displayed on a graphical LCD screen, and is totally indecipherable just to look at. You have to…
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Salvaging Li-Ion Batteries To Power Your Projects
We found a cool article about salvaging lithium-ion batteries that you thought were totally dead, and how to reuse them for your embedded projects. The idea comes to us by way of Embedds.com, and in their write-up, they describe some of the ways one can tap into the power that is still left in one…
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Make Your Own Metal Solder Stencils – Here’s How
Felix Rusu’s home-made solder paste stencils are so good you’d be forgiven for thinking they were laser-cut. He’s actually using a sheet of aluminum cut from a Dr. Pepper can and cleaning it with acetone and heat. After he sets up the stencil in a PDF file, he is using vinyl shelving paper to transfer…
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ZX Spectrum ULA Chip Implementation On OBLS
Above: OpenBench Logic Sniffer running the ZX Spectrum ULA chip clone. As a follow-up to Friday’s article on the ZX Spectrum clone running on the Pipistrello, I thought it would be good to share a little more with you on the implementation of the Sinclair ULA chip. The chip was originally included in the ZX…
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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…
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Firing Up The RetroCade Synth: First Impressions
We found another great article by Phillip Howard from Raspberry Pi @ Gadgetoid, this time on Getting Started With The Papilio RetroCade Synth. In the image above, you can see the RedroCade MegaWing plugged into its host Papilio Pro. This is the setup that Phillip used for the purposes of his article. After some initial…
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An Interesting Take On FPGAs From A R-Pi Point Of View
From Raspberry Pi @ Gadgetoid comes an interesting overview on FPGAs – in particular, our flagship Papilio-series dev boards. It’s refreshing to read Phillip Howard’s angle on all this, as it is decidedly from an Arduino/ Raspberry Pi angle on things. The article is a well-written synopsis and can serve its purpose well for those…
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FPGA Nixie Tube Speedometer = Steampunk Goodness
A Nixie tube speedometer for a vintage pickup truck – seems like the coolest combination ever, right? Check out the video above and you’ll see what I mean. For those who have never heard of a Nixie tube, it’s basically a numeric-display (there are also character-display variants) vacuum tube that works very similarly to a…
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