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  • The Gadget Factory is giving away a bare Papilio One PCB every week!

      Here at Gadget Factory we are happy to announce that we are giving away a bare Papilio One PCB every week! If you ever wanted to practice some surface mount soldering here is your chance to get a Papilio One PCB for absolutely free! For your chance at snagging a PCB, register in our…

  • AltOR32 OpenRISC ISA CPU on The Papilio One 250K

    Ultra-Embedded is at it again! this time with an OpenRISC CPU. After managing to run a ‘MPX’ soft-core processor on a Papilio One 250K board he have developed another soft-CPU project for this low-cost FPGA development board. AltOR32 is an OpenRISC 1000 architecture derived RISC CPU targeted at small FPGAs and contains only the most basic ISA features from the OpenRisc project and it should run…

  • Jerri Ellsworth uses Papilio in C64 Keytar!

    Hello everyone, The amazing Jerri Ellsworth just released a video that show the internals of her C64 Bass Keytar, as seen at Maker Faire. We were happy to see that she used a Papilio board as the heart of the system!  It’s the same Papilio that is at the heart of the RetroCade Synth!  …

  • Two axis motion tracking with NTSC television output!

    Wicked is at again! He just can’t stop making progress on his Multi Color Object Tracking system that uses a Papilio One 500k board and a cheap $10 camera from SparkFun. After getting two axis motion tracking successfully working by adding two servo cores to his device Wicked added a TV Wing to his design and here is the results of…

  • New video for the servo tracking with the Papilio One!

    Wicked is at it again, this time with two axis motion tracking! it seems like Just the other day that he shared with us his nice breakthrough of Tracking Multi Color Object with a Papilio One 500k board and a $10 camera and then  he was able to do some servo tracking by adding a servo…

  • Wicked is now doing some servo tracking with his project!

    Hey everyone! Today we have another exciting video for the Multi Color Object Tracking project made by our Papilio user Wicked. As we told you in a previous post he used a Papilio One 500k and a cheap camera that he got from sparkfun for around $10 to realize the project. This time Wicked added…

  • Driving a cheap PSP screen with an FPGA!

    As you can see in the slider above FlorianH got a PSP screen up and running with his DE0-Nano FPGA board. the screen is a cheap Sharp LQ043 which is a  4.3″ true color TFT display and FlorianH has long wanted to use it for something and finally got it hooked up to his FPGA…

  • New video for the Multi Color Object Tracking with the Papilio!

    Hey everyone! Good news for those who liked the Multi Color Object Tracking project made by our Papilio user Wicked. Today we got a new demonstration video that shows all the parts of the system connected to each other and the result displayed on a computer screen: If you have not read the last article…