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Papilio FPGA Shield – The next generation Papilio board is being developed at Kickstarter.
The next generation Papilio board, called the Papilio FPGA Shield, is currently under active development at Kickstarter. We invite anyone who is interested in more details or to become involved in the development process to join us at Kickstarter!
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JaxHax Video Diary: Non-technical Explanation of FPGA Technology
A non technical, conceptual explanation of FPGA technology using an analogy to rewritable CD technology. To learn more about the Papilio FPGA Shield for the Arduino project visit the Kickstarter project page.
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Papilio FPGA Shield Video Diary: Prototypes and Community Support.
A look at the prototype boards for the FPGA Shield and thank you for community contributors. To learn more about the Papilio FPGA Shield for the Arduino project visit: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13588168/papilio-fpga-shield-for-arduino
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JaxHax Video Diary: SMT Soldering Without a Stencil
Jack builds some C/RAM (CPLD and SRAM) Wings and shows how to do SMT soldering without a stencil. JaxHax is a behind the scenes video diary of the work being done on the Open Source Papilio FPGA board. The Papilio is an Open Source community inspired by the Arduino and meant to ease people into…
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Papilio One spotted in Jeri Ellsworth Video!
Engineer Extraordinaire Jeri Ellsworth is working on a FPGA based Software Defined Radio that is blowing our socks off. Besides the amazing display of engineering acumen the other cause for excitement is that while she is not using the Papilio One, not enough DSP blocks, she is using a Papilio VGA Wing! Check it out:…
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Something really cool for the Papilio and AVR8 is in the works!
We can’t say what it is yet, but as a teaser here are a couple videos from Pepevi. Why is this a teaser? Because Pepevi is just now putting the final touches on his aforementioned tool!
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Pong on a scrolling LED sign? Yes! With a Papilio FPGA!
Joel Owens put together this awesome video of the Papilio One driving a scrolling LED sign, but its not just driving text, its driving a Pong game! Wicked cool! We picked one of these scrolling LED gizmos from DealExtreme and would love to put it in the back of the car with a game of…
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JaxHax Video Diary: BGA Soldering at Home
Jack attempts to perfect a technique to solder BGA chips at home using a pancake griddle. JaxHax is a behind the scenes video diary of the work being done on the Open Source Papilio FPGA board. The Papilio is an Open Source community inspired by the Arduino and meant to ease people into FPGA…