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Watch My Pins! Serial Pro Compatible With Papilio, ZPUino
We’ve got a quick resource list for Alvie’s Serial Pro (SerPro) here for you today. Serial Pro is compatible with Papilio and ZPUino, and is RPC-like, fast, small and useful for when you don’t want your data to be lost or corrupted. Alvie says, This library (actually a set of C++ templates) was developed for my arduino…
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Arcade Game Trifecta On Papilio Pro, Arcade MegaWing
Forum user and regular contributor Alex recently dropped us a line on the forums. He was saying something about getting new arcade games running on the Papilio Pro with the Arcade MegaWing. Turns out he’s got three arcade games going (Ladybug, Dorodon, and Cosmic Avenger) and is using a PS/2 keyboard for controls. Alex says, [The games]…
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ZPUino Wishbone Simulator
Want to simulate your Wishbone peripherals without the overhead of synthesizing or simulating the full ZPUino Soft Processor? We’ve been working on porting a stepper control core to work as a wishbone peripheral on the ZPUino. To help us out with this process Alvie put together a really cool wishbone testbench that lets us simulate…
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Sale! $20 Off Papilio Pro And RetroCade Synth Bundle!
Great news! We’ve finally got the Papilio Pro and the RetroCade Synth in stock here at the Gadget Factory store. To celebrate, we’re going to make you a deal. Starting today, and only for a very limited time, we’re offering TWENTY BUCKS off the Papilio Pro and the RetroCade Synth when purchased together. Call it…
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Papilio Arduino IDE 1.5a Now Available
Hi! So this is just a quick note to let everyone know about an important update for the Papilio Arduino IDE – version 1.5a is out and ready to download! This updated version integrates the Papilio Loader and AVR8 Soft Processor into the Arduino IDE to allow seamless usage of the Arduino IDE with the…
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NES Game Console Recreated On FPGA
Today we’ve got a great gamer project to share with you in which a dude recreated the iconic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) on a Digilent Nexus 3 FPGA dev board. The reason? In his words, I was a bit bored during Christmas, so I decided to construct a whole Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in an FPGA. Boredom? That…
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Game On: PacManicMinerMan Released
Forum user Jim, AKA “Baggers” wrote in on the Gadget Factory forums to let us know that he’s finished with his rewrite of Manic Miner for the Pac-Man hardware. We will be working the game into the Arcade Blaster app shortly! Hi All, If you remember, a while back I was working on making a…
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LCD Hack With Monochrome Hitachi Screen & Papilio
Gadget Factory forum user Alex received a junked old Hitachi screen from his buddy and decided to see if he could get it up and running. The screen is one of those older monochrome, low-resolution (256 x 128) green LCDs and is missing a controller chip. On the back of the display there are eight…
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