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Fractal Viewer For Papilio, Controlled By Papilio Arcade
Mike Field has written a Mandelbrot fractal generator/ viewer that runs on the Papilio platform, and he’s controlling the zoom and scroll functions with the Papilio Arcade MegaWing. We found an article over at Hackaday about this that sheds some light on the technical details of the project: “Calculations to generate the shape are being run…
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Week 3 – Papilio Introduction Series: VGA Output!
Welcome to week three of the Papilio Introduction Series. This week we are covering one of the most exciting features of the Papilio – VGA output with the ZPUino Soft Processor. “Did you know that with the raw power of the Papilio’s FPGA, the ZPUino, and a VGA Wing you can write sketches with VGA…
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Using FPGAs For 2-Player Space Invaders
A couple of intrepid students taking a course on embedded systems came up with a new spin on the classic game Space Invaders – two-screen multiplayer! Using a Virtex II development (FPGA) board and some other gear, they managed to clone Space Invaders and have it run on two screens with some innovative competetive twists. …
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Virtual 7-Segment Display Generator for the Papilio Arcade
Here’s some more user-contributed code from reader Alex, this time on making a virtual 7-segment display on the Papilio Arcade in VHDL. The 7-segment display is outputted to VGA, and can be used to superimpose alphanumeric characters on top of any video already coming out on VGA. The position, size, and color of the…