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PSP LCD on FPGA
This is a really nice project that we found on the TFT-LCD module LQ043T3DX02 Sharp, best known as the display used in the PlayStation Portable (PSP) up and running with an FPGA development board. It’s not just a simple tutorial on that screen but you will find every information you need to get this hardware…
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$10 VGA camera on the Papilio One? How about a free PCB to try it yourself?
Several months ago we designed a Wing for the OV7670 camera that can be found on Ebay for around $10. To our delight Voelker contributed VHDL code to interface with the very same camera! To show our appreciation for this contribution we are giving away all the Wing PCB’s that we have sitting on our…
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Programming guitar pedal effects with Arduino
“Deadbird is a passionate guitar player and has “right” hands for electronics. This is all you need to avoid high expenses on equipment. So he wanted to squeeze out some more from his Whammy 4 guitar pedal by stuffing someMIDI commands to it. Of course one way to do this is to use aMIDI controller…
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Printable wire stripper lights up when you hit the conductor
The image above shows an Electro Wire Stripper that might be very useful for all of us. “For years we’ve used razor blades to do this, as the tiniest wires don’t have a slot on our trusty wire strippers. But often we cut all the way though the conductor (or many of the strands) when…
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Bootstrapping SRAM from FLASH on the Papilio Plus
We all know how flexible an FPGA can be but it’s still limited by the amount of resources it has especially when it comes to running a big project that requires a large amounts of memory whether it’s ram, rom or both.For that reason it is handy to have external memory attached to the FPGA…
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Papilio Arcade now easy as MAME with Arcade Blaster App
Here at Gadget Factory we’re happy to announce that the first release of the Arcade Blaster application is now officially available for download! The new Arcade Blaster application makes it easier then ever to load games to the Papilio Arcade hardware. It works just like MAME, simply provide ROMs that you own and it takes…
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Free ebook on VHDL available for download
For everyone who seeks a solid guide to help them develop their VHDL skills here is a free book we found that will help you get all that and much more. The book was written by Bryan Mealy and Fabrizio Tappero, you can download the electronic version of this book for free here: freerangefactory.org “Feedback and…
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AC ’97 Audio Wing for the Papilio One
The picture above shows a very nice audio interface wing for the Papilio one that Rudzz designed and here is an excellent topic that he has started on our forum to share with us what he has come up with. “I have been working on trying to create a nice audio interface wing for the Papilio…