Gadget Factory

Jack Gassett

  • JaxHax Video Diary: Frogger!

    Jack takes a look at the classic Arcade game Frogger running on the Papilio Arcade kit.   JaxHax is a behind the scenes video diary of the work being done on the Open Source Papilio FPGA board. The Papilio is an Open Source community inspired by the Arduino and meant to ease people into FPGA…

  • JaxHax Video Diary: Sneak Peek at the new VGA Core

    Jack follows up the VGA simulator diary entry with a look at Alvaro’s VGA core running on the Papilio One. The end goal is a VGA core and c++ library that can be easily controlled by simple function calls from an Arduino sketch.   JaxHax is a behind the scenes video diary of the work…

  • JaxHax Video Diary: Sneak Peek at High Speed USB Wings

    Video Diary of the behind the scenes work being done at Gadget Factory for the Papilio FPGA board. This provides a look at the new High Speed USB Wings.  

  • Sneak Peek: VGA Simulator for ZPUino on Papilio

    Here is a sneak peek at the VGA simulator that Alvaro has been working on to verify VGA designs. The VGA simulator is controlled by a sketch and simulates what the VGA output will look like when it will run on the VGA Wing connected to a Papilio board. Up next is making this demo…

  • Mandelbrot generator on FPGA

    Here is a project to create a high performance Mandelbrot fractal generator on an FPGA. Sadly, it does not work on the Papilio yet but maybe the C/RAM Wing will make it possible?

  • Papilio Controlling a Sweet LED Scrolling Sign

    Papilio user GalacticaSound put together a sweet scrolling LED sign that he connected to the Papilio One using a I/O Wing plugged into a breadboard. We want one of those LED signs too! For more details visit his Papilio project page and for now take a look at his video:     Looks awesome Joel!…

  • DAC (Digital to Analog) SPI MCP4921 VHDL project posted by Debreuil.

    Debreuil just posted a github project to control MCP4921 DAC chips with VHDL on the Papilio. There is no Wing for the MCP4921 DAC but there are templates to make Wings in the Papilio Playground or the soon to be available Prototype Wing could be used. Picture of the home brew pcb made with KiCad,…

  • Gadget Factory going to the Bay Area Maker Faire!

    Gadget Factory is going to be participating in the Bay Area Maker Faire! We will be located in the Seeed Studio booth along with Ian Lesnet from Dangerous Prototypes and many other Open Source developers. We will have the Papilio Arcade, Papilio Synth, Papilio Barcode, and the OpenBench Logic Sniffer on display. So please drop…