Finally learning some FPGA geeky goodness!

Back in 2014, I supported this campaign – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13588168/papilio-duo-drag-and-drop-fpga-circuit-lab-for-mak

And received the board 12 months ago, but haven’t had a play with it until now…

First things first..  check for a missing jumper, mentioned in update #23..

Install softwares.. I’m trying to install Designlab under windows 10, on my 2015 Macbook pro running Parallels

Downloaded ‘Papilio DesignLab IDE 1.0.7

http://forum.gadgetfactory.net/index.php?/files/file/236-papilio-designlab-ide/

Was able to get the hello world sketch running first time, blinking led and output to serial! Yay. Next to try out something using the computing shield…