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Papilio: The Untold Story
Chris Taylor, over at Sparkfun, recently introduced us to the All Programmable Planet blog. There have been some great Papilio related blog posts there and in a conversation with Max Maxfield, the editor in Chief, he asked me about my background and motivation to make the Papilio. I promised him an email with the Papilio…
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1st RetroCade Synth Prototypes! RetroCade MegaWing, Arcade MegaWing 2.0, and Papilio Pro!
The PCB’s for the RetroCade Synth prototypes arrived early this week which was way faster then expected. I put together a bill of materials (BOM) this week and put in a parts order to verify everything. The parts arrived last night and I built the first prototypes this morning! Here is a video showing the…
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The Increasing Prevalence of FPGAs in the DIY Realm
Chris Taylor, one of the awesome Engineers over at Sparkfun just posted a great article over at the new Programmable Planet blog. It’s a great read about the emergence of FPGA based DIY projects, and there is a good comment thread with a discussion about the best ways to help FPGA beginners get up to…
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Jerri Ellsworth uses Papilio in C64 Keytar!
Hello everyone, The amazing Jerri Ellsworth just released a video that show the internals of her C64 Bass Keytar, as seen at Maker Faire. We were happy to see that she used a Papilio board as the heart of the system! It’s the same Papilio that is at the heart of the RetroCade Synth! …
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Two axis motion tracking with NTSC television output!
Wicked is at again! He just can’t stop making progress on his Multi Color Object Tracking system that uses a Papilio One 500k board and a cheap $10 camera from SparkFun. After getting two axis motion tracking successfully working by adding two servo cores to his device Wicked added a TV Wing to his design and here is the results of…
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HOW-TO: Etch your own circuit boards? Easy way to align double sided boards!
Have you struggled with aligning patterns on a double sided board? Wicked has figured out a SUPER SIMPLE solution to easely etch a double sided board that could save people a lot of effort and time. And he has started a new forum thread to share with us what he came up with: “Everything I read would…
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New video for the servo tracking with the Papilio One!
Wicked is at it again, this time with two axis motion tracking! it seems like Just the other day that he shared with us his nice breakthrough of Tracking Multi Color Object with a Papilio One 500k board and a $10 camera and then he was able to do some servo tracking by adding a servo…
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Wicked is now doing some servo tracking with his project!
Hey everyone! Today we have another exciting video for the Multi Color Object Tracking project made by our Papilio user Wicked. As we told you in a previous post he used a Papilio One 500k and a cheap camera that he got from sparkfun for around $10 to realize the project. This time Wicked added…
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