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  • Alvie Is The Newest Blogger On All Programmable Planet!

    We wanted to congratulate our longtime friend, colleague, and collaborator Alvaro Lopez on being selected as the newest contributor on All Programmable Planet’s list of heavy hitters. Alvie is the man responsible for the ZPUino SoC softcore system, and much more. So, congrats Alvie! Here’s his introduction from APP: Álvaro Lopes is a Senior Software…

  • Introducing ZAP IDE – ZPUino And AVR8 Together At Last!

    Howdy, hacker types!  What’s new, you ask?  Well, I’m happy to say there’s a cool little development coming your way called ZAP IDE. What’s ZAP IDE you ask? Why, it’s the first version of the ZAP (ZPUino Arduino Papilio) Soft Processor IDE, that’s what! It’s basically ZPUino and AVR8, all in one. How about more…

  • Hacker Challenge #1: Win A $40 Gift Card To GF Store!

    Hackers, are you ready for the first Gadget Factory Hacker Challenge? Do you want to win a $40.00 gift card to spend on anything your heart desires at the GF Store? Here’s the deal: YOU design and implement a way to make the Ethernet module pictured above work with your Papilio board. You WIN a…

  • Listen: Jack’s Presentation From Design West 2013

    Happy Friday, gadgetheads! We’ve got an audio treat for you today, from last week’s industry event Design West Expo 2013 in San Jose.  Our founder and CEO Jack Gassett gave his first  presentation ever, on Designing an Open Source Arduino/FPGA Development Board.  There were lots of people at the show that we recognized from the forums…

  • New In The Store: USB Battery Pack & 1/8″-1/4″ Audio Adapter

    Hey gadgetheads!  Just a quick note: we recently added a couple of new products to the Gadget Factory Store.  The first is a killer USB battery pack that you can use to juice your Papilio when you’re on the move. We just got these in, and we’ve got them very reasonably priced at $26.99 – yeah,…

  • Shen Zhen Maker Faire 2013 Sponsored By Seeed Studio

    There’s an awesome maker’s convention being hosted by Seeed Studio this year, so we wanted to drop you guys a quick line about the 2013 Shen Zhen Maker Faire in China. Since we have a global readership, there’s no telling where you guys are at. So on the off chance that you’re near Shen Zhen,…

  • Sale! $20 Off Papilio Pro And RetroCade Synth Bundle!

    Great news!  We’ve finally got the Papilio Pro and the RetroCade Synth in stock here at the Gadget Factory store.  To celebrate, we’re going to make you a deal. Starting today, and only for a very limited time, we’re offering TWENTY BUCKS off the Papilio Pro and the RetroCade Synth when purchased together. Call it…

  • RetroCade Hardware Guide and User Guide Available Now; Final Hardware Launching Soon!

    In anticipation of our final RetroCade Synth hardware launching within the next couple of weeks, we wanted to take a minute and point everyone in the direction of the updated RetroCade Hardware Guide and the RetroCade User Guide: RetroCade Hardware Guide RetroCade User Guide These webpages are “works in progress” at this point, but are being…