Papilio One
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What makes FPGA’s special from the perspective of a newcomer.
The Random Thinker blog has a nice post that articulates what is so exciting about FPGA’s for the hobbyist. To summarize: Arduino inspired boards like the Papilio make it easy and affordable for hobbyists to get started with FPGA’s. An Arduino compatible processor can be extended with custom “Hardware” bits to do whizzy things. VGA…
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JaxHax: Waveform Generation with the Papilio coming soon!
Do you need an easy way to generate Sin, Cosine, Sawtooth, and Square waveforms? Take a look at this JaxHax video that shows a Sneak Peek at a waveform generation core that’s in the works. It allows Sin, Cos, Saw, and Square waves to be generated at a frequency of your choosing! The frequency can…
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Joel Owens, Papilio Enthusiast, Featured Engineer at EEWeb.
Joel Owens has done some really cool projects with the Papilio One board that have been featured on the Papilio front page. He was recently interviewed by EEWeb as one of their featured Engineers. It’s a very interesting read where he talks about his background and his most recent work with FPGA’s. It’s really nice…
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Papilio Programmer 1.6 Released
Version 1.6 of the Papilio Programmer is officially available for download. The new release fixes the bug causing long SPI Flash programming issues, adds improvements to the menu options, and includes a Windows Installer. A new Quickstart Guide with installation videos is also being released at Papilio.cc. Changes: SPI Flash programming takes 3-5 seconds now…
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Monster LED Game table being ported to the Papilio.
Tobias has a monster game table that he drives with an Arduino. He’s working in the forum on a port to the Papilio with a custom AVR8 user core to drive the display! Stop by his blog for more videos or the forum to check out the progress and add your feedback.
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Dangerous Prototypes Open 7400 Logic Contest!
This is right up any FPGA enthusiasts alley, Dangerous Prototypes is having an Open 7400 Logic Contest contest to see who can put together the best project utilizing 7400 series logic chips. There are many great prizes including an Arcade MegaWing with a Papilio One 500K FPGA board that we will be giving away as…
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ZPUino VGA and VGALiquidCrystal libraries on the Papilio.
Alvaro has released a VGALiquidCrystal library for the ZPUino that lets you take a sketch written for the HD44780 LCD and transform it into VGA output! Watch the video to see it in action on the Papilio: Also released is a VGA library that lets you draw lines, rectangles, images, and much more.…
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Video by AtomSoft showing some tools to modify VGA cores.
Here is a video that AtomSoft made showing off some of the software tools he is writing to modify Kevin Lindsey’s VGA core. Reposted from AtomSoft blog.