Gadget Factory

Jack Gassett

  • Today Toaster Pictures

    While in China I worked with and bonded with a local group of Chinese Makers on a fun project called the Today Toaster. The Today Toaster connects to the Internet and captures the weather for the day and then toasts an image onto your bread to keep you up to date with the days weather.…

  • Working on Today Toaster in US-China Maker Competition!

    I’m in China now working with a team of young Makers on a a very special toaster that prepares you for the day by toasting the weather forecast onto your toast! Using the Intel Galileo board and a connection to the internet it will get the latest forecast and then use an Arduino sketch to…

  • SD card testing

    Check it out as Hamster plays around with SD cards. So far he has it initializing the card using VHDL! Here is the test setup – a Papilio FPGA board from http://www.gadgetfactory.net/, and a SD adapter from http://www.futurlec.com/: via hamsterworks.co.nz

  • Hamster makes a frequency counter that works up to 500Mhz!

    Hamster makes a frequency counter that works up to 500Mhz on the Papilio FPGA!!!!!    

  • New tool to calculate DCM Multiply and Divide values.

    Alvaro made a nice tool to automatically calculate Multiply and Divide values needed to use Xilinx DCM’s and PLL’s. It even cascade’s PLLs to generate unusual frequencies.

  • Bil Herd – Designer of Commodore 128 – talks about CPLD/FPGAs!

    Wow! Watch this video as Bil Herd – the designer of the Commodore 128 – talks about the early days of PLA’s. Get the full scoop on Hack a Day. Then he talks about CPLD’s and shows how to get started with a simple counter design. Get the full scoop on Hack a Day. This…

  • Papilio DUO Live on Kickstarter!

    The Papilio DUO Kickstarter just went live this morning! There are still some early bird specials to be had so don’t wait, check it out today… The Papilio DUO is the latest Papilio board that combines a Spartan 6 FPGA with an Arduino Leonardo compatible chip! It’s like have a circuit lab connected to an…

  • Papilio DUO: Something big is coming next week…

    We are pleased to announce that we will be launching a Kickstarter campaign for the Papilio DUO on Wednesday the 28th! We just got final approval from Kickstarter and are just waiting for a few final pieces to fall into place. 🙂 In the meantime, we have a preview of the Kickstarter online so you…