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Papilio One

  • Implementing SPI & I2C Interfaces On Papilio One

    Papilio user and tech blogger Duane Benson from All Programmable Planet has a new article on his ongoing quest to create his own robotic tele-presence avatar. This one is about implementing SPI and I2C interfaces on his Papilio One for the project. Duane’s avatar will need a series of motors and sensor controls for various…

  • Papilio And pcDuino Together As A USB to 3.3V TTL RS232 adapter

    Here’s a great and simple project using a Papilio One and a pcDuino together for the purpose of making a USB to 3.3V TTL RS232 adapter. This is from Mike Field’s site Hamsterworks where he’s got a full project description and the code to go along with it! Mike says, Cool project, Mike.  It just…

  • 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…

  • VHDL SD Card Writer v1.0 For Papilio

    Forum user Matt Ownby has put together some code to be able to write data at full speed (50 MHz) to an SD card, and was kind enough to share it with us!  This is VHDL code for the Papillio One FPGA board that shows how to write to an SD card in a high-speed mode. Here’s the…

  • High Speed Data Transfer Between Two Papilios

    Mike Field (hamster) of Hamsterworks has written a new tutorial on how to achieve a high-speed data transfer between two Papilio One 250k boards.  The goal of the project was to achieve data transfer at 400 mbps, and Mike wound up exceeding the target by a pretty good margin. From Mike’s project description, The aim…

  • Sneak Peek – Build Arduino-Compatible SOCs With New Schematic Editor

    Today we wanted to give you a sneak peek at a new SOC (System On Chip) schematic editor for Papilio that we are working on.  The editor is a drag and drop system that makes it easy (even for beginners) to draw schematics even without necessarily having VHDL experience.  Jack says, What we need is…

  • Genetic Algorithm AI Writes Self-Modifying/ Improving Programs

    Kory Becker from Primary Objects has been experimenting with AIs capable of writing their own computer programs. The AIs Kory is using are called genetic algorithms.  They function much the same as biological evolution, in that the programs they write get better and better with each generation.  In other words, genetic algorithms are programmatic implementations…

  • Watch My Pins! Serial Pro Compatible With Papilio, ZPUino

    We’ve got a quick resource list for Alvie’s Serial Pro (SerPro) here for you today.  Serial Pro is compatible with Papilio and ZPUino, and is RPC-like, fast, small and useful for when you don’t want your data to be lost or corrupted. Alvie says, This library (actually a set of C++ templates) was developed for my arduino…