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  • Create A Particle Dynamics Simulator With Your FPGA

    Today´s article presents a very detailed project of a Cornell student who wanted to play with Pyro Sand Game. He did not want his laptop to overheat due to high power consumption, the fan to go crazy or the screen to freeze up once a lot of particles were on screen. To solve this he…

  • How To Control What You See On A Screen in Two Hours and For Less Than $25!

    Imagine how cool it would be to control what appears on your screen and at a bargain price, just using your FPGA (yes! Your Papilio!) and some other easy-to-get components. All you need is read today´s article (and buy the tiny things of course). This how-to post is one of those which are written thinking…

  • Feeling like Barenboim? Check it with your FPGA!

    Today´s article shows how a group of students from Cornell University, created a hardware-software set of tools to develop and composed your own music, the Audio Composer and Conducting Suite (A.C.C.S). This virtual conducting environment platform is capable of inputting the compositions from a video camera and a keyboard or a conductor waving his/her hands…

  • Remember Playing Cowboys With A “Hand” Gun? Now It´s a Video Game

    Thanks to the work developed by a group of students at Cornell University, all you would need to do is to paint the tip of your finger in Red. This is not to fake that you are shooting that much that your finger is burning. This is because their project is based on this color.…

  • Spit out VGA with non-programmable logic chips

    Bitbanging a VGA can be a tough task due to the timing requirements. Nevertheless Sven gave it a go and not only he bitbanged a VGA on an arduino, but he managed to configured an array of 7400 logic chips to output a VGA signal. Consisting of two parts, his project first consisted in outputting a…

  • New Wings for the Papilio – two days only sale!

    Good new today we got the MicroSD and the I/O Buffer wings back in stock after a long wait and we also have a couple brand new wings for the Papilio which are the RGB LED Panel and the VGA Camera wings and We are offering these awesome new products at a special price of $6.99 for the…

  • Piano Hero, touch without a touchscreen!

    Today we got an exciting project that we want to share with you. A group of students at the Cornell University have developed a virtual piano system that allows the user to play piano on the screen, I know you are thinking that there is nothing special here but what if I tell you that…

  • 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: