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  • Control a Servo Motor with Your FPGA

    Hello FPGA lovers! Great stuff here today. I have come across an article that gives you great details about how to control a RC Servo with a FPGA. There many versions for RC servos but basically all of them use a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal to control their position. Servos should receive 5 V…

  • New Tutorial – PWM outputs on Papilio FPGA

    In this tutorial you will learn how to use the PWM outputs of your Papilio FPGA board. For this particular step-by-step article, we have connected a button LED Wing to Wing slot AL. Basically you will be able to write a sketch that uses a PWM on any pin. We have only used 6 pins…

  • New Encoder Wing For Papilio – One Day Only Sale!

    Hi there everyone! We are excited to finally have the brand-new Encoder Wing in stock at the Gadget Factory store! We are offering this awesome new product at a special introductory price of $11.99 for the first day only.  That day is today!  I would say take advantage of the sale, because tomorrow the Encoder…

  • New Ethernet Wing For Papilio – 50% Off One Day Only Sale!

    Hi there everyone! We are excited to finally have the brand-new Ethernet Wing in stock at the Gadget Factory store! We are offering this awesome new product at a special introductory price of $9.99 for the first day only.  That day is today!  I would say take advantage of the sale, because tomorrow the Ethernet…

  • We have a B/LED Wing overstock! Take advantage and get one for $4.99!

    Hello everyone, today we are happy to announce a special offer on the Button/LED Wing 🙂 so if you are a Papilio user and you still don’t have this wing this is a great opportunity to get one for just $4.99 instead of the original price of $14.99 ! Moreover if you plan to buy…

  • User Created Audio Wing For Papilio

    Hi! We’re back from a nice, much-needed holiday break! We hope your holidays were wonderful for you and your families as well. We’ve got a great wing project here to show you, courtesy of JR from JR’s EE Blog, who has created his own audio wing for the Papilio hardware. JR writes, “For a while…

  • New Papilio FPGA based vision system!

    Three months ago Papilio user Wicked has shared with us his breackthrough of Multi Color Object Tracking with a Papilio One 500k and a cheap camera that he got from sparkfun for around $10, since then he has gone crazy with his project! He managed to do some servo tracking with the project and then he…

  • VHDL Puzzle Contest Winners!

    [wp_bannerize group=”giveaway”] Here at Gadget Factory we proudly announce that The VHDL Puzzle Giveaway has finally come to an end after a weeklong contest in which we’ve seen a good participation with so many good answers! first of all lets have a quick review of the Prizes: Grand Prize – Papilio One 500K and LogicStart…