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  • Alex makes HDMI Wing to drive salvaged laptop display with Papilio Plus!

    Alex designs an HDMI Wing and a custom PCB that lets him connect his salvaged LVDS laptop monitor to the HDMI Wing on his Papilio Plus. Next we need to get this working on the soon to come Papilio Pro! To read the full thread. Finally! PCB goodness in them mails. Feels like xmas. First…

  • BenL’s first cut at a Real Time 3D Display Core!

    Ben Leperchey is at it again with a 3D display core on the Papilio Plus FPGA board. He just posted the first bit file to the Gadget Factory forum:  

  • 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!  …

  • New video for the Multi Color Object Tracking with the Papilio!

    Hey everyone! Good news for those who liked the Multi Color Object Tracking project made by our Papilio user Wicked. Today we got a new demonstration video that shows all the parts of the system connected to each other and the result displayed on a computer screen: If you have not read the last article…

  • Multi Color Object Tracking with the Papilio One!

    Back in April Papilio user Voelker shared with us his project of Blob Tracking with a $10 Camera Module on the Papilio One. Today we got another similar project made by Papilio user Wicked who is able to track multiple objects of different colors using the Papilio One 500k. Wicked uses a camera that he…

  • SoundPuddle: Art installation driven by ZPUino on Papilio!

    John English of Boulder Engineering Studio put together an art installation titled, “Sound Puddle” for the Apogaea Festival in Colorado. Since he needed to drive 1664 RGB LED’s with 10 SPI masters, all at the same time, he decided on using the Papilio FPGA board. Alvaro Lopes heard about the project and was quick to…

  • SPI VGA Controller working with the Papilio One

    This month we’ve seen many Papilio users sharing with us some pretty good projects on our forum and this is one of these exciting works, the idea was to make an SPI VGA Controller that works in the Papilio One.. Vhdlnerd has designed a VGA controller that primarily Targets the Papilio One 250k board but…

  • Blob Tracking with $10 Camera Module on Papilio

    Voelker is at it again! It seems like just the other day that he shared with us his breakthrough of getting a cheap $10 camera working with the Papilio. Who needs rest when there are so many exciting Computer Vision applications to be hacked, not Voelker, he’s hard at work on Sobel Filters and Blob…