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  • 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:  

  • Jeri Ellsworth shows off homemade touch controller – Papilio spotted in video!

    The incredible Jeri Ellsworth just uploaded another Youtube video, this time she makes a touchpad from scratch! Its very good information to tuck in the back of your mind in case you ever need to hack up a touchpad. The best part is there is a Papilio running the demo that she put together. 🙂

  • 1st RetroCade Synth Prototypes! RetroCade MegaWing, Arcade MegaWing 2.0, and Papilio Pro!

    The PCB’s for the RetroCade Synth prototypes arrived early this week which was way faster then expected. I put together a bill of materials (BOM) this week and put in a parts order to verify everything. The parts arrived last night and I built the first prototypes this morning! Here is a video showing the…

  • 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!  …

  • 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…

  • Coming Soon! Atari 2600 on the Papilio Arcade.

    Good news, the Open Source Atari 2600 project, A2601, is now working on the Papilio Arcade hardware. We got some time to work on the NTSC to VGA conversion and we have some video of the A2601 with VGA output in action. We hope to have the code cleaned up and ready for release very…

  • 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…

  • 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…