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How to design a Homemade GPS Receiver
Have you ever thought about designing a GPS Receiver? It seems very complicated but not with this design we found at holmea.demon.co.uk, the article clearly explains how to make a homemade GPS receiver and we thought you guys would find it very useful. “…I was motivated to design this receiver after reading the work of Matjaž Vidmar, S53MV, who developed a GPS receiver from scratch,…
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Fractal Viewer For Papilio, Controlled By Papilio Arcade
Mike Field has written a Mandelbrot fractal generator/ viewer that runs on the Papilio platform, and he’s controlling the zoom and scroll functions with the Papilio Arcade MegaWing. We found an article over at Hackaday about this that sheds some light on the technical details of the project: “Calculations to generate the shape are being run…
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Quick & Easy – Getting Started With GitHub
GitHub is a giant online storehouse for archiving and sharing code. We’ve got a bunch of code available on GitHub for many items of Gadget Factory interest that we’re sure you’ll find useful in your endeavors: Gadget Factory top-level repository Gadget Factory Wing PCB designs Papilio Arcade source code AVR8 source code We also came across…
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Pac-man Running On Papilio Arcade Using Linux
Thanks to reader Sowbug, who sent us this nice tidbit about how he got Pac-Man running on his Papilio Arcade via Linux. Sowbug says, “Just got the Papilio on Sunday and was going through converting the Windows-based .bat and tools for merging/loading the Pac-Man bitfile. The first time I ran the loader with the bitfile, it…
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Week 3 – Papilio Introduction Series: VGA Output!
Welcome to week three of the Papilio Introduction Series. This week we are covering one of the most exciting features of the Papilio – VGA output with the ZPUino Soft Processor. “Did you know that with the raw power of the Papilio’s FPGA, the ZPUino, and a VGA Wing you can write sketches with VGA…
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Bruce Perens Mentions Papilio And Bus Pirate In Linux Keynote Speech
(Jump to 39:04 on the vid to hear Bruce mention Dangerous Prototypes Bus Pirate, and to 41:04 when he talks about our Papilio!) Open source guru Bruce Perens gave a keynote speech recently at the major 2012 Linux conference linux.conf.au just this past week in Ballarat, Australia. If you’ve got an hour to spare, the whole video is certainly…
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Announcing A Very Special Promotion: Papilio Arcade Combo $75 Blowout!
Here at Gadget Factory, we are pleased to announce something along the lines of a Super Sale! As of right now, we’re offering a combo promotion on our Papilio One 500k and the Arcade Megawing (when purchased together) for our lowest price ever – $74.99! Normally valued at $109.99 for both, you won’t regret the savings in…
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A Nice Collection Of Code Tools For The Papilio
Mike Field has put up a wiki bursting with all kinds of code for many aspects of the Papilio board, as well as a number of test projects for the Papilio + Arcade MegaWing hardware. We’re happy for everyone who has a Papilio, as many of these items are really handy to have at the…