Papilio DUO kickstarter Drag and Drop FPGA Circuit Lab for Makers

[miguelvp]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13588168/papilio-duo-drag-and-drop-fpga-circuit-lab-for-mak

Looks good, always been interested on the papilio but this brings it to a new level, although $25 extra for the 2MB SRAM version instead of the 512KB that come on the early bird is giving me pause.

And if they reach $60K hamster_nz is going to be busy it seems

I might jump in after all.

Edit: I went for it, Now to learn Xilinx toolchain as well.

[miguelvp]

It already reached 1/3rd of the goal in less than one day, only around 31 early bird boards to go.

Seems like this one is going to get funded way fast.

[Rasz]

Its from gadget factory = instant win.
Papilio One already introduced thousands of people to FPGA delivering great documentation, tutorials and whole projects to start.
This will do ten times more thanks to targeting Adruino crowd.

[all_repair]

Chicken out of Novena crowdfunding earlier but the ability to have an easily programmable FPGA platfrom to hack other hardware is too attractive.  Less than US$100 is less painful to see it just laying around waiting for my free time.

Supported !

[hamster_nz]

The KS was fully funded within a week - well done Jack Gassett!

[miguelvp]

The KS was fully funded within a week - well done Jack Gassett!

Now let's hope it doubles, to keep you busy

Me, I gotta clean my hard drive to make space for the Xilinx toolchain. Most likelly I'll just get another drive since I only have one in this system.

December delivery is perfect because in winter I get more stuff done (gets really cold in Chicago so I might as well stay home)

[miguelvp]

3 days left and even if it's funded, it's only $10K short for getting hamster to work on the book for the next goal.

Yeah I'm a backer so after 20 days from the last post I'm bumping this.

[miguelvp]

Just to let you know that for whatever reason, someone backed out of the Early Bird board for $75, since no one is expecting it, it might be there for a little bit until someone snags it.

Edit: and now it's gone.

[miguelvp]

11 hours left and only $509 short for hamster_nz to update his papilio book for this board.

I promise I won't bump the thread again until it's all done.

[hamster_nz]

11 hours left and only $509 short for hamster_nz to update his papilio book for this board.

I promise I won't bump the thread again until it's all done.

You seem aweful keen on me writing - I take that as you offering to proofread and edit?

[miguelvp]

Sure thing, although I'm a noob at FPGAs (6 months and only Altera and mostly VHDL) that's why I want you to write it

Then again, that's your target audience, although I'm probably not as green, anyways, I'll be more than happy to help.

[miguelvp]

I got mine today. As per the announcement, mine is missing the power jumper but I have plenty around. Seems like seed studio tested them with a single jumper and the tester assumed the jumper would be installed at a later step or something like that.

I don't have a lot of time these days, but reports in the comments are that the demos are working fine and the tutorials are working great for everyone.

http://duo.gadgetfactory.net/

[miguelvp]

So I was able to program the FPGA with a soft core zpuino and then switch it to use the AVR. Next step will be to get the AVR to use a circuit from the FPGA.

They (the Spartan and the AVR) don't share a lot of pins (16) for interprocess communication but sixteen should be enough for a fast bus between the chips.