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Papilio One

  • LCD Hack With Monochrome Hitachi Screen & Papilio

    Gadget Factory forum user Alex received a junked old Hitachi screen from his buddy and decided to see if he could get it up and running. The screen is one of those older monochrome, low-resolution (256 x 128) green LCDs and is missing a controller chip. On the back of the display there are eight…

  • ZPUino Linux Framebuffer

    Ah, the start of another week.  Let’s see what’s in the news around here. Well, we’re getting word from Alvie over at his ZPUino page that we are getting closer to a Linux implementation of ZPUino.  The picture above is an example of a video framebuffer running on physical hardware.  ZPUino also now has video output…

  • First Steps With Papilio One & Breadboard

    Dave over at Whiley.org just got his new Papilio One and decided to document some of the first steps he’s taking with the board. His endgame is to take the Arduino-based tank robot he’s made and eventually power it with his shiny new Papilio. These are some of his efforts so far. The question is:…

  • Coming Soon: New Debugger That Should Work On Papilio

    By way of forum user Icebear comes word that a new debugger is on the horizon which should work on the Papilio: Many developers got used to this: Plug in a JTAG connector to your embedded target and debug the misbehaviour down to the hardware. No longer a luxury, isn’t it? When you move on…

  • “Getting Started” Papilio + B/LED Wing Project

    Duane Benson over at ProgrammablePlanet.com has a nifty starter project for the Papilio and the B/LED wing that may help some new Papilio users get started on FPGAs. What you’ll need for this project are a Papilio board and the Button/LED Wing (click the links for more info). The objectives of this project are to:…

  • Awesome Flying Video Camera Stabilzer Project Using Papilio

    Papilio user Siou is hard at work on a killer project involving hardware and software image stabilization for a video camera “mounted to a flying machine.”  The project is built around a Papilio 250K  and uses a series of servo motors meant to correct the x, y, and z axes of rotation to stabilize the…

  • User Project: FM Radio Transmitter Built on Papilio

    We found an exciting and simple project yesterday on our forums that describes how to  turn your Papilio into an FM radio transmitter using nothing more than 60 lines of VHDL code and a piece of wire. The end result is an FPGA-based transmitter bleeping out “SOS” in Morse Code over FM radio. Longtime Gadget Factory…

  • RetroCade Hardware Guide and User Guide Available Now; Final Hardware Launching Soon!

    In anticipation of our final RetroCade Synth hardware launching within the next couple of weeks, we wanted to take a minute and point everyone in the direction of the updated RetroCade Hardware Guide and the RetroCade User Guide: RetroCade Hardware Guide RetroCade User Guide These webpages are “works in progress” at this point, but are being…