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Coming Soon: New Debugger That Should Work On Papilio
By way of forum user Icebear comes word that a new debugger is on the horizon which should work on the Papilio: Many developers got used to this: Plug in a JTAG connector to your embedded target and debug the misbehaviour down to the hardware. No longer a luxury, isn’t it? When you move on…
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Pengo game running on the Papilio Pro.
Papilio user and longtime Papilio arcade contributer Alex has managed to get the Pengo game running on his Papilio Pro board. Here is a quick demo video of the game running on the Papilio Pro: Alex writes, “The Pengo hardware is very close to the Pacman hardware but annoyingly it has just enough differences that…
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User Created Audio Wing For Papilio
Hi! We’re back from a nice, much-needed holiday break! We hope your holidays were wonderful for you and your families as well. We’ve got a great wing project here to show you, courtesy of JR from JR’s EE Blog, who has created his own audio wing for the Papilio hardware. JR writes, “For a while…
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Additive Synthesis Using Altera DE2-70 FPGA
We found an interesting video on YouTube demonstrating additive synthesis on an FPGA – in this case an Altera DE2 board. These guys have set up a MIDI controller keyboard to send note-on, note-off, and velocity for each note played to the DE2. The DE2 has been programmed with VHDL to decode the MIDI messages,…
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“Getting Started” Papilio + B/LED Wing Project
Duane Benson over at ProgrammablePlanet.com has a nifty starter project for the Papilio and the B/LED wing that may help some new Papilio users get started on FPGAs. What you’ll need for this project are a Papilio board and the Button/LED Wing (click the links for more info). The objectives of this project are to:…
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Awesome Flying Video Camera Stabilzer Project Using Papilio
Papilio user Siou is hard at work on a killer project involving hardware and software image stabilization for a video camera “mounted to a flying machine.” The project is built around a Papilio 250K and uses a series of servo motors meant to correct the x, y, and z axes of rotation to stabilize the…
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Some Cool Ideas For Hacking With The RetroCade
Hola, amigos! We found some cool videos on YouTube showing what other folks are doing with FPGA audio synthesis that we’d like to share with you. You may find some inspiration/ hacking ideas herein; these are just some of things that are possible with FPGA synths (such as our own RetroCade Synth)! There are some…
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Using Your GF Gadgets With Windows 8
It has recently come to our attention that many of you have been having problems using Gadget Factory products with Windows 8. The reason for this is that Windows 8 requires drivers to be signed, and is set to reject unsigned drivers by default. Fortunately, we have instructions for you to get past this requirement…
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