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FPGA

  • Programming FPGAs with Python

    For everyone who wants to get started with developing for FPGA’s and dont want to waste time in learning a new programming  language or they just want to use their current knowledge of programming with Python to program an FPGA, this tool is just made for you! The Python Hardware Processsor is written in Myhdl…

  • Multi Color Object Tracking with the Papilio One!

    Back in April Papilio user Voelker shared with us his project of Blob Tracking with a $10 Camera Module on the Papilio One. Today we got another similar project made by Papilio user Wicked who is able to track multiple objects of different colors using the Papilio One 500k. Wicked uses a camera that he…

  • SoundPuddle: Art installation driven by ZPUino on Papilio!

    John English of Boulder Engineering Studio put together an art installation titled, “Sound Puddle” for the Apogaea Festival in Colorado. Since he needed to drive 1664 RGB LED’s with 10 SPI masters, all at the same time, he decided on using the Papilio FPGA board. Alvaro Lopes heard about the project and was quick to…

  • SPI VGA Controller working with the Papilio One

    This month we’ve seen many Papilio users sharing with us some pretty good projects on our forum and this is one of these exciting works, the idea was to make an SPI VGA Controller that works in the Papilio One.. Vhdlnerd has designed a VGA controller that primarily Targets the Papilio One 250k board but…

  • Nice Megawing Design for the Spartcam

    Voelker is at it again! After getting a cheap $10 camera working with the Papilio and then getting the blob tracking to work with it… He continues to make progress and this time he has designed a nice megawing for the spartcam. As you can see in the images above he put the papilio board…

  • Coming Soon! Atari 2600 on the Papilio Arcade.

    Good news, the Open Source Atari 2600 project, A2601, is now working on the Papilio Arcade hardware. We got some time to work on the NTSC to VGA conversion and we have some video of the A2601 with VGA output in action. We hope to have the code cleaned up and ready for release very…

  • Blob Tracking with $10 Camera Module on Papilio

    Voelker is at it again! It seems like just the other day that he shared with us his breakthrough of getting a cheap $10 camera working with the Papilio. Who needs rest when there are so many exciting Computer Vision applications to be hacked, not Voelker, he’s hard at work on Sobel Filters and Blob…

  • Papilio as a YM2149 MIDI Synthesizer!

    While browsing through past HackaDay articles looking for projects to spark the imagination we noticed a trend. It seems that people are keen on connecting the audio chips from old computer and arcade games to their Arduino! Especially the YM2149 which is a popular audio chip that was used in the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum…