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Papilio Pro Hardware Guide Now Available, Papilio Pro Boards Now For Sale At Seeed Studio
Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, lend an ear as we’ve got a wonderful announcement: The Papilio Pro Hardware Guide is now available for your perusal on the site, and the Papilio Pro hardware itself is up for sale, $84.99 at Seeed Studio. All as of today! This is my favorite part – taking out my…
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Raspberry Pi Gets 5MP Camera Early 2013
If you found yourself here on GadgetFactory.net, chances are you’re interested in open-source hardware and what’s going on in the biz. We’re kind of in love with the Raspberry Pi and want to help you keep up with all the coolness: There’s a new video camera attachment for the Raspberry Pi that debuted at the…
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User Project: FM Radio Transmitter Built on Papilio
We found an exciting and simple project yesterday on our forums that describes how to turn your Papilio into an FM radio transmitter using nothing more than 60 lines of VHDL code and a piece of wire. The end result is an FPGA-based transmitter bleeping out “SOS” in Morse Code over FM radio. Longtime Gadget Factory…
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RetroCade Hardware Guide and User Guide Available Now; Final Hardware Launching Soon!
In anticipation of our final RetroCade Synth hardware launching within the next couple of weeks, we wanted to take a minute and point everyone in the direction of the updated RetroCade Hardware Guide and the RetroCade User Guide: RetroCade Hardware Guide RetroCade User Guide These webpages are “works in progress” at this point, but are being…
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ROMGen v3.01 r4
Papilio user Felix has started a new forum topic to share with us his his latest release of the romgen tool. He was able to add new functionality to do some simple bitswaps and handle different encryption types: “by including the -ini switch on the command line, it is capable of doing some simple bitswaps on…
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8 digit frequency counter project quick update.
After designing a 8 digit frequency counter using a Dx display and a Papilio One board hamster finally got a Digilent GPS PMOD and completed the project by making a GPS referenced 100MHz frequency counter and everything is working as expected 🙂 Here is a picture of the GPS referenced 100MHz frequency counter in action: Dont…
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8 digit frequency counter using the Papilio One
Papilio user hamster designed a 8 digit frequency counter using his Dx display and he’s looking to get a GPS module to complete the project and make a GPS referenced 100MHz frequency counter. Here is a video of the frequency counter in action: . And here is a list of the parts needed to make…
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Storing user data on your FPGA
One thing that makes FPGAs so great is flexibility and the unlimited type of projects that can be made using an FPGA, however, it’s still limited by the amount of resources it has especially when you want to run a big project that requires a large amount of memory space. Papilio user hamster a.k.a Mike…