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FPGA Light Timers Help Keep The Homestead Safe
When embedded systems designer Robin Findley was living in the ‘hood, he knew he would have to be a step ahead of the bad guys when he took his family on vacation. When you live in a neighborhood where a SWAT team raid two doors down is not unheard of, you’ve gotta take some precautions.…
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Papilio And pcDuino Together As A USB to 3.3V TTL RS232 adapter
Here’s a great and simple project using a Papilio One and a pcDuino together for the purpose of making a USB to 3.3V TTL RS232 adapter. This is from Mike Field’s site Hamsterworks where he’s got a full project description and the code to go along with it! Mike says, Cool project, Mike. It just…
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Indie Game ‘Meat Boy’ Cloned For Play On An FPGA
By way of Reddit, here is one college student’s project in which he recreates the awesome indie Flash game Meat Boy on an FPGA. The FPGA Meat Boy creator, known only as “skipToThe3nd” used an Altera DE2 for the project. Here is an excerpt from his Reddit thread (when skipToThe3nd was asked about his display…
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pcDuino Has Arrived! Now Available In The GF Store
We gave you a quick peek at it a few weeks ago here on the blog, and now BAM! The pcDuino has finally arrived and is in stock at the Gadget Factory store! The pcDuino is a high performance mini PC with an Arduino style interface. It can run full operating systems like Ubuntu and/or…
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Homebrew Coder Releases DOS Emulator For R-Pi
(The screenshot above shows some benchmarks just to give you an idea of how fast the Raspberry Pi, even through emulation, is running DOS.) A homebrew coder who goes by Pate just released his rpix86 DOS emulator for the Raspberry Pi platform. The emulator offers support for Super VGA graphics, Soundblaster 2.0, memory, USB keyboard…
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Screen Recycling: Papilio Driving A Junker LCD Screen
Papilio user James wrote in on the the forums about his LCD display project that he has been working on. James is using his Papilio, a junked old Epson EG2401 monochrome LCD display, and a buffer board that he built from scratch. It’s similar to another junked display project that we posted a while ago, yet…
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Using A MIDI Controller Keyboard And A Hack To Type…Words
Hackaday’s got an interesting article up about using a MIDI controller keyboard as a typing input device. This is a very different way to type called ASETNIOP which is a newer system of chorded typing. ASETNIOP was originally developed for touchscreen devices, and is a system of typing where your fingers never have to leave…
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New In The Store: USB Battery Pack & 1/8″-1/4″ Audio Adapter
Hey gadgetheads! Just a quick note: we recently added a couple of new products to the Gadget Factory Store. The first is a killer USB battery pack that you can use to juice your Papilio when you’re on the move. We just got these in, and we’ve got them very reasonably priced at $26.99 – yeah,…
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