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  • Protect Your Home With a FPGA-based Alarm System

    Welcome back again FPGA addicts! Today we have a very interesting and useful project for you: Build your own alarm system with your FPGA. This work was carried out by a group of students and it could perfectly serve as a baseline for any alarm system. The project is developed in 6 easy steps. All…

  • New Products Available In The GF Store

    First up, we have a new seven-segment, eight-digit LED display to show you what’s happening with your numbers! Hook up this LED Display to your Papilio or other dev boards and do prototype projects with a counter, clock feature, display the values from sensors, or whatever else you’re doing to those poor numbers. Quick specs:…

  • Screen Recycling: Papilio Driving A Junker LCD Screen

    Papilio user James wrote in on the the forums about his LCD display project that he has been working on.  James is using his Papilio, a junked old Epson EG2401 monochrome LCD display, and a buffer board that he built from scratch.  It’s similar to another junked display project that we posted a while ago, yet…

  • First Steps With Papilio One & Breadboard

    Dave over at Whiley.org just got his new Papilio One and decided to document some of the first steps he’s taking with the board. His endgame is to take the Arduino-based tank robot he’s made and eventually power it with his shiny new Papilio. These are some of his efforts so far. The question is:…

  • Tips And Tricks For Prototyping With Breadboards

    Here’s a great bunch of tips and tricks for breadboarding that Boseji recently put up on his blog.  It’s a nicely done collection of tips, tricks, photos, tutorials, and more that we thought our readers here would enjoy having in our “Knowledge Base” category. An excerpt: “We have all used breadboards, or those who plan to jump into the…