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Papilio DUO

  • Build your own Mandelbrot Fractal Generator with FPGA

    Greetings FPGA lovers! Today’s post takes you into yet another interdisciplinary project that links pure mathematics, FPGA and VHDL to build something beautiful! The Mandelbrot set is a series of complex numbers that tend to infinity when operated upon by a special operator. These numbers when grouped together create a beautiful image sequence which might…

  • MULTICOMP Z80 CP/M migrated to the Papilio Duo Platform!

      Hello Papilio fans today we got an awesome project to share with you! Our forum member jlcollado has managed to migrate the Grant Searle’s brillant work called MULTICOMP to the Papilio DUO, the final result is a very usable and complete Z80 soft-core based machine, running the venerable Digital Research CP/M 2.2 OS. I’ve built the Z80 CP/M variant, complete with VGA & Keyboard…

  • Interfacing a Chord Keypad to Papilio Duo FPGA Board

    Chorded keyboards are useful tools used to enter characters or commands formed by pressing several keys together. They are a bit like a piano. In the great blog post from Sustburbia, we will see how to efficiently connect one with an FPGA board, especially the Papilio DUO. The keypad is loosely based on the Microwriter – an early UK designed portable…

  • The Papilio DUO and the new shields are finally here!

    Here at Gadget Factory we are happy to announce that our next generation of products are now available at our online store. The long awaited Papilio DUO along with the new Papilio Shields are finally here after a successful Kickstarter campaign that helped us raise more than $62.000 in funds to make this dream come…

  • Papilio DUO Pre-Order Is Now Enabled In The Store!

    Good news everyone 🙂 the Papilio DUO and the Papilio Shields are expected to arrive in stock early next week and we are now taking pre-orders for the new items in the Gadget Factory Store. We encourage you to pre-order now and reserve your DUO because the numbers will be limited since the big part…

  • Papilio DUO Pre-Orders Now Available On Backerkit

    Great news! Papilio DUO pre-orders are finally here , we are using Backerkit to take pre-orders and we are offering so many exciting add-ons with some good discounts. Please visit the pre-orders page here to take advantage from these discounts and make sure you get your Papilio DUO board as soon as we get them in stock.…