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  • Build Your Own Digitized Tic Tac Toe with FPGA

    Greetings FPGA enthusiasts! Today’s project is a rather exciting one where we will attempt to build a Digitized Version of the popular Tic Tac Toe game with FPGA. This Tic Tac Toe FPGA implementation is pretty simple so this is a great project for a newbie too. So game on! The Hardware requirements are pretty…

  • Get Ready to Bop It! With FPGA

    Hello FPGA enthusiasts! Today we have a close enough version of the popular Bop It! Game. For those unfamiliar with what a Bop It! Game is, I will tell you that it is practically a quick reflex based game that has a set of voice commands that give you instructions to perform tasks with the…

  • 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…

  • How To Build Your Own Giant Digit Grid

    Today´s post presents a great article for almost everybody. Whether you like real making from scratch, writing code or just working with an FPGA, keep reading. Somehow the author was fascinated by LED digit displays at some point in his life and so he decided he had to build his own giant LED digit grid.…

  • Homebrew Coder Releases DOS Emulator For R-Pi

    (The screenshot above shows some benchmarks just to give you an idea of how fast the Raspberry Pi, even through emulation, is running DOS.) A homebrew coder who goes by Pate just released his rpix86 DOS emulator for the Raspberry Pi platform.  The emulator offers support for Super VGA graphics, Soundblaster 2.0, memory, USB keyboard…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…