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user projects

  • “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…

  • Cool QR Code Clock On Graphical LCD

    Sometimes its good to see what other people are up to on their projects. It can serve to spark an idea for your own designs, and this one here is just plain cool. This QR code clock is displayed on a graphical LCD screen, and is totally indecipherable just to look at. You have to…

  • 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…

  • Papilio Pro Breathes New Life Into Old Laptop Display

    Papilio Pro user James Glanville recently posted a great project that he’s been working on, over at the Gadget Factory forums. He was nice enough to share his code and some photos for the project, in which he has got his Papilio Pro hooked up to an old laptop LCD display that he had sitting around the workshop.…

  • 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…

  • Indie Game ‘Meat Boy’ Cloned For Play On An FPGA

    By way of Reddit, here is one college student’s project in which he recreates the awesome indie Flash game Meat Boy on an FPGA. The FPGA Meat Boy creator, known only as “skipToThe3nd” used an Altera DE2 for the project.  Here is an excerpt from his Reddit thread (when skipToThe3nd was asked about his display…

  • 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…

  • 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:…