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  • Announcing: Papilio One bare PCB Winners

    Hey everyone! Today we have announced on our facebook page the name of the winner for the first week of the bare Papilio One PCB GIVEAWAY and going forward we will be giving away a PCB every Monday! Congratulations! We have another winner for this week Giveaway who is our forum user Sergey along with Petr the winner for…

  • Quadrature encoders on the ZPUino.

    Papilio user IvanJH made a “simple” quadrature interface for the ZPU, using the standard HD44780 code in the ZPUino IDE install, and a sketch to read the quad counter and write to the LCD. I created my own “simple” quadrature interface for the ZPU, and using the standard HD44780 code in the ZPUino IDE install,…

  • A SoundPuddle MegaWing to control 10,000 LEDs with Papilio!

    After a successful run of the SoundPuddle at Apogaea Festival John English of Boulder Engineering Studio has shifted his focus toward building a new circuit board to run the installation. John is using a Papilio One board to control the installation and connect all the parts of the system which is composed of a microphone…

  • The Gadget Factory is giving away a bare Papilio One PCB every week!

      Here at Gadget Factory we are happy to announce that we are giving away a bare Papilio One PCB every week! If you ever wanted to practice some surface mount soldering here is your chance to get a Papilio One PCB for absolutely free! For your chance at snagging a PCB, register in our…

  • AltOR32 OpenRISC ISA CPU on The Papilio One 250K

    Ultra-Embedded is at it again! this time with an OpenRISC CPU. After managing to run a ‘MPX’ soft-core processor on a Papilio One 250K board he have developed another soft-CPU project for this low-cost FPGA development board. AltOR32 is an OpenRISC 1000 architecture derived RISC CPU targeted at small FPGAs and contains only the most basic ISA features from the OpenRisc project and it should run…

  • 1st RetroCade Synth Prototypes! RetroCade MegaWing, Arcade MegaWing 2.0, and Papilio Pro!

    The PCB’s for the RetroCade Synth prototypes arrived early this week which was way faster then expected. I put together a bill of materials (BOM) this week and put in a parts order to verify everything. The parts arrived last night and I built the first prototypes this morning! Here is a video showing the…

  • The Increasing Prevalence of FPGAs in the DIY Realm

    Chris Taylor, one of the awesome Engineers over at Sparkfun just posted a great article over at the new Programmable Planet blog. It’s a great read about the emergence of FPGA based DIY projects, and there is a good comment thread with a discussion about the best ways to help FPGA beginners get up to…

  • Jerri Ellsworth uses Papilio in C64 Keytar!

    Hello everyone, The amazing Jerri Ellsworth just released a video that show the internals of her C64 Bass Keytar, as seen at Maker Faire. We were happy to see that she used a Papilio board as the heart of the system!  It’s the same Papilio that is at the heart of the RetroCade Synth!  …