Gadget Factory

Jack Gassett

  • Gadget Factory Pick and Place hard at work.

    We’ve been really busy with building circuit boards lately so we thought we would post a video of the 20 year old Gadget Factory pick an place hard at work.  

  • OpenBench Logic Sniffers hot off the Pick and Place machine.

    Gadget Factory is now manufacturing and selling OpenBench Logic Sniffers! We just finished programming the design into the pick and place and have the first batch tested and ready to go. For those who have been waiting for the OLS to be stocked at Seeed Studio, wait no longer.   The OpenBench Logic Sniffer is…

  • Xilinx VHDL UART Example

    Here is a three part screencast that provides an example of implementing a high speed 3Mb/s UART with the Papilio One board and the FT2232 USB chip.   The project uses the free Xilinx VHDL UART example because it is optimized for Xilinx hardware, it provides the smallest and fastest UART possible. The source code…

  • Papilio One DIY – Build your own Papilio One!

    One thing I’ve always loved is the satisfaction of saving a couple dollars and building an Open Source project myself. The Papilio One is an excellent challenge because it requires some advanced surface mount soldering. We put together a DIY kit that, at $34.99, is a great opportunity to practice surface mount soldering. If successful…

  • Sneak Peek: Papilio RAM Prototype

    There is a new FPGA Dev board in the works at Gadget Factory. The new board, codenamed Papilio RAM, brings some exciting new features to the Papilio Platform: 2-16 Mb of 16bit SRAM. Spartan 3A FPGA in a BGA package means that gate densities from 50K-1400K can be populated. Spartan 3A allows multi-booting multiple bitstreams…

  • Version 2.12a of the OpenBench Logic Sniffer Windows Installer released.

    A new Windows installer for the OpenBench Logic Sniffer (OLS)  is now available for download. This installer greatly simplifies the initial task of getting the OLS up and running. Download OpenBenchLogicSniffer-2.12a-Setup.exe Features of the new installer are: Installs the original Sump Java client and Jawi’s excellent alternative Logic Sniffer client. Automatically installs the Windows Device…

  • Version 1.4 of the Papilio Loader

    Version 1.4 of the Papilio Loader has been released at the Papilio Loader project page. To download directly follow this link. The following has been changed: Support for SST SPI Flash chips has been added. When the Papilio_Loader.bat file is associated with *.bit files double clicking on a bit file allows the selection of either…

  • Sneak Peek of the Papilio Junior Prototype controlling a Stepper Wing

      The Papilio Junior is a low cost microcontroller based Papilio board that is the first step towards what we are calling the Papilio Continuum. Applications that are rapid prototyped on the FPGA Papilio Board in the Arduino IDE can be downgraded to the much more cost effective Papilio Junior. More information about the Papilio…