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Papilio Pro

  • Start Playing With Your Papilio Pro Logic Analyzer!

    https://youtu.be/D7FWUJoVaIc If right now you are kind of what is this guy talking about? Then you should check this and learn one of the almost infinite applications of a Papilio Pro. Today, we bring an article that explains one use for your brand new Papilio Pro Logic Analyzer. This is to capture the communication via…

  • Controlling the output of a Papilio Pro with the wheel of a mouse

    https://youtu.be/N8pwx4Y7E30 There are tons of ways of creating a home-made microcontroller. Today we present a very detailed tutorial on how to achieve this using the rotary encoder from the scroll button of a mouse. This is part 5 of a series. The goal here is to achieve a constant frequency signal at the output of…

  • Gadget Factory Store Discount!

      Great news for everyone who has been asking about the Papilio Pro and some other products availability: Since we are out of stock on Papilio Pro boards we decided to take pre-orders and offer you the biggest discount to try to make up for the inconvenience. If you are willing to back order the Pro we are…

  • Acrylic Enclosures For Papilio Pro Now Back In Stock!

    Hello, hackers! Just wanted to drop you all a quick note that the acrylic enclosures for the Papilio Pro are now back in stock at the store. There has been a hefty demand for these, and the design (by Os1r1s) is absolutely stunning. If you’re going to hack around with your PPro, we recommend that…

  • “Really Dumb” MIDI Monitor For RetroCade

    Forum member Offroad recently hit us up with an example project, which is  based on the Papilio Pro and the RetroCade Synth. He’s calling it the Really Dumb MIDI Monitor.  This deserves a bit of explanation: For starters, Offroad explains what he means by the term, “really dumb meaning: All the fun stuff like printf(“%02c”, byte) happens in…

  • Nice Case For The Papilio Pro!

    Do you have a Papilio FPGA board or any type of Papilio MegaWings and want to house it in a nice case to protect it from any potencial damage? Our forum member Sonny has come up with a great solution, he managed to design a nice case for his Papilio Pro as you can see…

  • Initial Impressions: Firing Up The Papilio Pro

    Well, what do ya know! Duane Benson over at All Programmable Planet has another nice article up, this time on the subject of getting his Papilio Pro ready. Ready to do his bidding, that is! If you read the previous article here about the progress of the tele-presence robotic avatar that Duane is working on,…

  • Firing Up The RetroCade Synth: First Impressions

    We found another great article by Phillip Howard from Raspberry Pi @ Gadgetoid, this time on Getting Started With The Papilio RetroCade Synth. In the image above, you can see the RedroCade MegaWing plugged into its host Papilio Pro. This is the setup that Phillip used for the purposes of his article. After some initial…