Gadget Factory

Jack Gassett

  • First release of the Papilio Schematic Library – draw a custom processor!

    Hello everyone, we have some exciting news today, the first release of the Papilio Schematic Library is ready to go! Ever find that you need just one more serial port, or SPI master, or PWM? Wouldn’t it be nice to add any peripheral you could imagine to your microcontroller? Sigma-Delta audio DAC’s, Stepper Controller’s, Commodore…

  • Papilio Loader on Mac OSX!

    Hey, hey! This is for all the Papilio users out there who are using Mac OS X! I decided to bring in some professional help who could make a nice Mac installer for the Papilio community. After posting a job on oDesk I was contacted by an awesome Mac Guru up in Canada who got…

  • New Tutorial: Install Xilinx ISE WebPack.

    Well, it’s been a slow couple of weeks for blog posts! Hoppasuarus had to take a break from blogging for a while and it has been a journey trying to fill in. In the meantime we’ve been finishing up a new learn website and have been lining up some new tutorials. The plan is to…

  • Progress on Duane Benson’s robot avatar! Navigation…

    Duane Benson, over at All Programmable Planet, is working on a robot avatar to rule the world! Or at least fill in for him at conferences. 🙂 He is documenting his progress in a series of articles entitled, “Discovering FPGA’s” which has been a great read. Here are some links if you want to catch…

  • RetroCade V1.1: C64 SID Analog Filters are here!

    Breaking news! The long awaited implementation of the analog filters for C64 SID chip are here! The new V1.1 RetroCade release includes everything you need to play SID files from your SD card and enjoy the new analog filters. Grab a copy of the Windows Installer and start enjoying the SID goodness. Not a Windows…

  • Papilio Loader without root in Linux!

    Josh Bassett put together this nice tutorial on how to setup you Linux machine to use the Papilio Loader without the need for sudo or root access. Thank you Josh! For a guide on how to install the Papilio Loader on Linux take a look at our “Under Construction” Learning website. We still have some…

  • New guest bloggers on the way! Have ideas for blog posts? Contact us!

    In order to provide even more interesting Open Source and FPGA news for the Gadget Factory blog we are actively seeking out new bloggers. Over the next several weeks we will be posting articles from new guest bloggers as we try to ramp up the Gadget Factory blog with even more useful content. Please keep…

  • NTSC Battleship – NTSC generation using VGA DAC

    Here is an interesting project coming out of a Cornell University Engineering class. Two students tackled the challenge of generating color NTSC signals using the DE2 FPGA development board. What’s interesting is they used the 10 bit VGA DAC to generate multiple NTSC signals. They were able to re-purpose the Analog Devices ADV7123 Video DAC…