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Structuring An FPGA Project
The way you think about designing with VHDL is a lot like how you design a circuit board. This is a good article that we found over at Embedded.com on the finer points of structuring an FPGA project. The article relays some very important concepts, and we thought you guys would find it useful. “…the highest…
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Quick Note: ZPUino Is Looking For Alpha Testers
If any of you would like to be a part of the alpha testing crew for ZPUino, Alvie over at ZPUino is looking for some good men and women. If anyone is interested in helping test the upcoming 1.0 version of ZPUino, please drop him a line here. Cool!
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Papilio Arcade MegaWing Now On Sale At Seeed Studio For $19.99
Here at Gadget Factory we’re getting a little into the holiday spirit , and are happy to announce that the Papilio Arcade MegaWing is on sale for a special promotional price of only $19.99, down from $34.99 at Seeed Studio! This is a limited-time promotion – get yours now while supplies last! If you already own…
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Papilio Arcade User Guide v1.2 Available For Download!
Hi ho! We are pleased to announce that the Papilio Arcade now has an updated user guide (version 1.2) available for download! The new guide reflects additional games that are now supported, quickstart guides for ZPUino and Zetris for all you homebrew and indie game developers, more comprehensive information about the Arcade Megawing hardware itself, three…
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FPGA Board Used To Parse Data From A GPS Module
This is a fresh little project we found over at The Carrier Frequency, for using an FPGA board to parse data from a GPS module. Definitely worth a look, we figured our readers would dig it as much as we did – there’s a lot of potential here. “This is a project that uses a…
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LED Matrix Animations Powered By Papilio
From time to time we like to check in with Papilio users and find out what they’re up to. This one comes to us from Tobiscorner’s blog: these guys are using a Papilio One to power some custom animations on an LED matrix they built. The video is pretty cool with what they’ve got running so far…
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Learning VHDL With Robin Debreuil
(And the answer, for five MILLION dollars….contestant one?) Here’s an excellent article we found over at Robin Debreuil’s blog concerning a number of VHDL concepts and implementation. It’s a great read, and we thought it’d be cool to post here for any Papilio owners and/ or VHDL coders to take a look at! Robin totally attacks…
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Open Discussion: Device Hacking
We found an article on Hackaday about a cool hardware hacking project using the RCA DSB772WE media streaming box. The article gave us an idea – why not start an open discussion series on the homeblog here? We’ll start it off with this one. Because, well, why not? A Hackaday reader found an RCA streaming…