ZPUino
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A SoundPuddle MegaWing to control 10,000 LEDs with Papilio!
After a successful run of the SoundPuddle at Apogaea Festival John English of Boulder Engineering Studio has shifted his focus toward building a new circuit board to run the installation. John is using a Papilio One board to control the installation and connect all the parts of the system which is composed of a microphone…
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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…
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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…
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Jet Set Willy remake for ZPUino running on the Papilio One
After releasing the ZPUino 1.0 Alvaro Lopes has managed to add a VGA adaptor to his processor and then he wanted to make something special to test the adaptor and try to display some nice graphics. Then he got the idea to remake one of his favourite games that he enjoyed so much back in…
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Papilio as a YM2149 MIDI Synthesizer!
While browsing through past HackaDay articles looking for projects to spark the imagination we noticed a trend. It seems that people are keen on connecting the audio chips from old computer and arcade games to their Arduino! Especially the YM2149 which is a popular audio chip that was used in the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum…
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Stand Alone YM Music Player with ZPUino 1.0 release.
Hey everyone! To celebrate the release of the new MIDI Audio Wing and ZPUino 1.0 we are releasing a slew of new audio examples. In fact, we made a whole new Wiki dedicated to audio applications for the Papilio. Check it out over at http://audio.GadgetFactory.net. The first example is a stand alone ym player that…
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ZPUino 1.0 version is now officially released
We are pleased to be working with Alvaro Lopes to coordinate the release of the ZPUino 1.0 with the release of our new Audio MIDI Wing. The new ZPUino release is packed with so many goodies that it is enabling a whole new breed of Audio and Video applications for the Papilio! “ZPUino 1.0 is…
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ZPUino 1.0 Release Coming Soon!
The ZPUino is a 32 bit processor running at 100Mhz with an integrated VGA display adapter and YM2149 sound processor. Everything is controlled by a sketch and an easy to use VGA library from the Arduino IDE. The good news is that a 1.0 version of the ZPUino will be released soon probably before the…