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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • FPGA Breakout Game controlled with hand motions!

    ECE 5760 students Meng-Ling (Maxwell) Liu, Thu-Thao Nguyen and Yang Yang designed a breakout game that they call HAND BREAKING BRICKS but this game is not controlled the way classic breakout games are, it’s controlled with hand motions!! The project is basically consisting of a CCD camera, a DE2 FPGA board and a VGA monitor…

  • Hamster hacks mini helicopter control into FPGA

    Hamster bought a cheap Infrared toy helicopter with the intention of hacking the protocol and he successfully built an FPGA interface for it. He started with Capturing the commands using a IR receiver module but the IR sensor he had didn’t give any useful signal so he decided to open the transmitter and inspect it.…

  • Good solution to get rid of annoying Solder Fumes

    Have you been annoyed by the solder fumes that always tend to rise up into your nose? Don’t look anymore for a solution, we got a great one for you it’s an easy solution that does not need any high tech equipment for implementation made by Jean-Claude Wippler from Jeelabs. Here’s how he did it:…

  • Using FPGAs For 2-Player Space Invaders

    A couple of intrepid students taking a course on embedded systems came up with a new spin on the classic game Space Invaders – two-screen multiplayer!  Using a Virtex II development (FPGA) board and some other gear, they managed to clone Space Invaders and have it run on two screens with some innovative competetive twists. …

  • FPGA Board Used To Parse Data From A GPS Module

    This is a fresh little project we found over at The Carrier Frequency, for using an FPGA board to parse data from a GPS module.  Definitely worth a look, we figured our readers would dig it as much as we did – there’s a lot of potential here. “This is a project that uses a…