Gadget Factory

Gadget Factory

  • Visiting a PCB factory in Shanghai.

    More pictures of Jack Gassett visiting a PCB factory in Shanghai with Jingfeng of Linksprite:

  • More Pictures From A Lake In Beijing!

    Here are more pictures from a lake in Beijing:

  • People’s Hall Pictures!

    As Jack promised you in a previous post here are more pictures from People’s Hall for Maker award ceremony:

  • MAX5556 Audio DAC Wing For The Papilio

    Papilio user Fantasma25 has designed a new audio DAC wing and decided to share his work with us on the forum. The new wing It’s based on the MAX5556 DAC, it has an I2S-compatible interface and up to 50KHz sampling rate which is perfect for standard 44.1 and 48 KHz sampling rates and a resolution of 16 and 24 bits.…

  • 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.…

  • 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.