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  • Implementing SPI & I2C Interfaces On Papilio One

    Papilio user and tech blogger Duane Benson from All Programmable Planet has a new article on his ongoing quest to create his own robotic tele-presence avatar. This one is about implementing SPI and I2C interfaces on his Papilio One for the project. Duane’s avatar will need a series of motors and sensor controls for various…

  • Jack Gasset To Give Tech Tour Of Papilio @ Design West 2013

    Today we’ve got a very special engagement to let you all in on. The man behind the curtain, Gadget Factory founder Jack Gassett will be giving a tech talk about the Papilio platform at the upcoming industry convention Design West Expo 2013 out in Silicon Valley, California. The Design West Expo is an industry-leading event,…

  • New Products Available In The GF Store

    First up, we have a new seven-segment, eight-digit LED display to show you what’s happening with your numbers! Hook up this LED Display to your Papilio or other dev boards and do prototype projects with a counter, clock feature, display the values from sensors, or whatever else you’re doing to those poor numbers. Quick specs:…

  • Papilio And pcDuino Together As A USB to 3.3V TTL RS232 adapter

    Here’s a great and simple project using a Papilio One and a pcDuino together for the purpose of making a USB to 3.3V TTL RS232 adapter. This is from Mike Field’s site Hamsterworks where he’s got a full project description and the code to go along with it! Mike says, Cool project, Mike.  It just…

  • pcDuino Has Arrived! Now Available In The GF Store

    We gave you a quick peek at it a few weeks ago here on the blog, and now BAM!  The pcDuino has finally arrived and is in stock at the Gadget Factory store!  The pcDuino is a high performance mini PC with an Arduino style interface.  It can run full operating systems like Ubuntu and/or…

  • Screen Recycling: Papilio Driving A Junker LCD Screen

    Papilio user James wrote in on the the forums about his LCD display project that he has been working on.  James is using his Papilio, a junked old Epson EG2401 monochrome LCD display, and a buffer board that he built from scratch.  It’s similar to another junked display project that we posted a while ago, yet…

  • pcDuino Is A Mini PC + Arduino, Coming Soon To The GF Store

    We’d like to introduce you to the pcDuino – a high performance mini PC with an Arduino style interface.  The pcDuino is cool because it can run full operating systems like Ubuntu and/or Android ICS, can connect to your network, and is even compatible with Arduino shields!  The pcDuino is powered by ARM Pro.  Here…

  • In-Fabric Serialization: 1080p DVI-D With a Spartan 6 LX FPGA

    Mike Field, best known as “hamster” came up with an innovative way to display 1080p video at 60Hz from a Spartan 6 LX FPGA. It really came down to a workaround solution given the transmission speeds of the board vs. what is reqired for 1080p video at 60Hz. Mike explains: So how did Mike get…