Papilio One
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VHDL Tutorials With Mike Field
Happy New Year! 2012 is the year that the Mayans predicted would be the end of the world, or some such rot. Don’t worry, we don’t believe in this at all. We believe in hard science. But if you believe, then there’s not much time left – so why not get started with some FPGA goodness? Papilio enthusiast…
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Quick Note: ZPUino Is Looking For Alpha Testers
If any of you would like to be a part of the alpha testing crew for ZPUino, Alvie over at ZPUino is looking for some good men and women. If anyone is interested in helping test the upcoming 1.0 version of ZPUino, please drop him a line here. Cool!
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Papilio Arcade MegaWing Now On Sale At Seeed Studio For $19.99
Here at Gadget Factory we’re getting a little into the holiday spirit , and are happy to announce that the Papilio Arcade MegaWing is on sale for a special promotional price of only $19.99, down from $34.99 at Seeed Studio! This is a limited-time promotion – get yours now while supplies last! If you already own…
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LED Matrix Animations Powered By Papilio
From time to time we like to check in with Papilio users and find out what they’re up to. This one comes to us from Tobiscorner’s blog: these guys are using a Papilio One to power some custom animations on an LED matrix they built. The video is pretty cool with what they’ve got running so far…
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Papilio One User Hack
Here at Gadget Factory, we not only make hackable hardware, we encourage the hacking of hardware – especially if it’s one of our boards! Papilio user Atomsoft describes his project to upgrade his Papilio One 250 board to a 500E chip. It’s a cool and easy project, and Atomsoft’s end result gives him a whole bunch of new…
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VHDL Communication With A PS/ 2 Keyboard
Thanks to reader Hamster, who submitted this peachy Wiki page! Hamster has written some VHDL code for communicating with a PS/ 2 keyboard that can be found on the wiki! Useful stuff: “It has lots of features: It does full start bit, stopbit and parity check … deglitches the signals, by requiring a state change of longer than…
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Papilio Bit File Loader GUI Now Available!
We are proud to announce that we have just released a GUI bit file loader for the Papilio! We already have a command line tool and a dialog based menu interface for loading bit files to the Papilio but the Papilio Loader GUI 2.0 beta is the first full GUI. (Stay tuned, Linux and Mac versions coming soon.)…
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Experimentation with TFT Touchscreens!
There have been some discussions in the Papilio forum about getting some low cost TFT touchscreens working with the Papilio. Lee has been working on some touchscreens and that inspired us to pick up work on a Prototype Wing that we had laying around. We were able to get the touchscreen up and running with…