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  • FPGA Plays Super Mario Bros Just Like A Real Human Does

    It’s no secret that we love FPGAs and we love games. When we see a cool project that combines both of these, it’s kinda hard NOT to post it here on the blog. Advanced Microcontroller Design students Jeremy Blum, Sima Mitra, and Jason Wright have been hard at work on their open source, FPGA-based, Super…

  • FPGA Piano Hero Game Uses Camera Touchscreen

    More Cornell University student FPGA projects coming your way! These guys come up with some great implementations of FPGA technology. This time around we have Embedded Systems Design students Chonggang Li and Ran Hu who built a video-camera based touchscreen system using an Altera DE2 FPGA and a Piano Hero game to interact with. In…

  • Indie Game ‘Meat Boy’ Cloned For Play On An FPGA

    By way of Reddit, here is one college student’s project in which he recreates the awesome indie Flash game Meat Boy on an FPGA. The FPGA Meat Boy creator, known only as “skipToThe3nd” used an Altera DE2 for the project.  Here is an excerpt from his Reddit thread (when skipToThe3nd was asked about his display…

  • Your FPGA Is Better Than You Are At Chess

    Yes, your FPGA board can beat you at chess.  At least, that’s the objective of Warren Miller over at All Programmable Planet in his series titled A Chess-Playing FPGA. Warren has been thinking about “developing a different way of thinking about solving complex problems using FPGAs, as opposed to the traditional sequential approach we are…

  • Arcade Game Trifecta On Papilio Pro, Arcade MegaWing

    Forum user and regular contributor Alex recently dropped us a line on the forums.  He was saying something about getting new arcade games running on the Papilio Pro with the Arcade MegaWing.  Turns out he’s got three arcade games going (Ladybug, Dorodon, and Cosmic Avenger) and is using a PS/2 keyboard for controls. Alex says, [The games]…

  • New Arcade Blaster App 1.2 Release!

    Here at Gadget Factory we’re happy to announce that a 1.2 version of the Arcade Blaster application is now officially released and available for download from the new download center! The Arcade Blaster is a multi-platform application that simplifies using Papilio Arcade kit and eliminates the need to directly work on HDL sources and it…

  • Bomb Jack game implemented in the Papilio Plus

    Alex is at it again! It seems like just the other day that he shared with us his nice project of getting one of his favorite Arcade games “Bomb Jack” working on a prototype Papilio Plus board. As we told you in a previous post the VHDL implementation was not complete and the project still…

  • FPGA Snake game uses no VHDL at all

    Remeber the DE2 FPGA board we talked about in the last post that ECE 5760 students used to implement their HAND BREAKING BRICKS game, this time the same FPGA board is used for the implementation of the game SNAKE. It’s not a normal version of the game.But what is special with this version is that…