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  • Critical Tips to Build Your Own C88 Homebrew Computer with FPGA

    Greetings FPGA lovers! Today’s post is about building your own mini computer using FPGA. The project has been inspired by the first SSEM, popularly called the Manchester baby. The project resembles its inspiration in certain aspects, but being a homemade CPU with minimal components and coding, the specs are not as formidable as the SSEM.…

  • Here is How The Dark Side Got Started With Their Robot Army!

    Nowadays, you may be fed up of Star Wars jokes, baits and so on. I am sorry, I could not resist the temptation. Anyway, this time, at least, was not a joke nor a lie. Today´s article brings the real truth to you. If you want to build your own robot, as simple as you…

  • Program your FPGAs and CPLDs at zero cost with the BBB

    Today, we present a thorough tutorial on how to take advantage of the BeagleBone Black to implement programmable logic. This is a very easy procedure. It is browser-based, and you just need to drag and drop your programming files into the beagle, wait a few seconds…and done! That simple! The recommendation is to start with…

  • Want to use your Papilio as an official download cable?

    If you need to use your Papilio with the Xilinx tools; such as EDK, chipscope, or Impact there is an exciting new tool to make this happen. For many years Xilinx has been closed up when it comes to any information about how to make a board compatible with the Xilinx tools. They finally released…

  • Mains Hum Filter Using Papilio/ Logic Start

    Hamster has a new project up over at his Hamsterworks site, and he’s got code running both for the Papilio/ Logic Start combination, and for the Arduino. In this project, he has created a filter that can filter out commonly encountered “mains hum” frequencies up to the Nyquist limit of half the sample rate for…

  • ZX Spectrum With HDMI Out On The Pipistrello

    Jozsef Laszlo, AKA “joco” has come up with a very good implementation of the 1982 ZX Spectrum computer using his Papilio-based Pipistrello board. Joco says he wanted to do the ZX Spectrum project to “prove that a Spectrum clone can have a modern HDMI video output. Pipistrello was a good choice for this, because it…

  • An Interesting Take On FPGAs From A R-Pi Point Of View

    From Raspberry Pi @ Gadgetoid comes an interesting overview on FPGAs – in particular, our flagship Papilio-series dev boards. It’s refreshing to read Phillip Howard’s angle on all this, as it is decidedly from an Arduino/ Raspberry Pi angle on things. The article is a well-written synopsis and can serve its purpose well for those…

  • Listen: Jack’s Presentation From Design West 2013

    Happy Friday, gadgetheads! We’ve got an audio treat for you today, from last week’s industry event Design West Expo 2013 in San Jose.  Our founder and CEO Jack Gassett gave his first  presentation ever, on Designing an Open Source Arduino/FPGA Development Board.  There were lots of people at the show that we recognized from the forums…