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  • Build an Autonomous FPGA Search and Rescue Vehicle

    Hello again FPGA lovers! Today’s project is a challenging one where you build an autonomous search and rescue vehicle with FPGA! The projects involves the use of 2 vehicles, where one searches for the target with the aid of an FPGA, while the other uses minimal sensory aids to follow the search beacon and rescue. The…

  • How To Use Your FPGA To Display Things On A PSP Screen!

    Welcome back to the track of using your FPGA to display things. Today´s tutorial will teach you how to use the LCD screen of a PSP to display colour graphics from an FPGA. The main goal is to show three colour stripes on the screen but the author goes beyond that and adds a quick…

  • How To Add A LCD To Your FPGA And Control What It Displays!

    This great tutorial brings you all the information you need to add a screen to your FPGA.  You will learn about how to choose the appropriate parts for this project, the schematics and as it couldn´t be otherwise, you will also get to know the theory. Mainly, this article explains the theory behind the control…

  • Papilio Pro Breathes New Life Into Old Laptop Display

    Papilio Pro user James Glanville recently posted a great project that he’s been working on, over at the Gadget Factory forums. He was nice enough to share his code and some photos for the project, in which he has got his Papilio Pro hooked up to an old laptop LCD display that he had sitting around the workshop.…

  • Screen Recycling: Papilio Driving A Junker LCD Screen

    Papilio user James wrote in on the the forums about his LCD display project that he has been working on.  James is using his Papilio, a junked old Epson EG2401 monochrome LCD display, and a buffer board that he built from scratch.  It’s similar to another junked display project that we posted a while ago, yet…

  • LCD Hack With Monochrome Hitachi Screen & Papilio

    Gadget Factory forum user Alex received a junked old Hitachi screen from his buddy and decided to see if he could get it up and running. The screen is one of those older monochrome, low-resolution (256 x 128) green LCDs and is missing a controller chip. On the back of the display there are eight…

  • Recycled junked laptop LCD driven by the Papilio Plus

    Papilio user Alex has managed to drive an LCD screen with his Papilio Plus Board. He used an old broken laptop that was left unused for a long time and took the LCD apart which is a 15″ panel with 1280×800 pixel native resolution to try to drive it with the Papilio Plus FPGA board and…

  • 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…