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  • Breaking: New GF Store Launches Today!

    Hey everyone!  We’ve got an exciting news flash for you today. We are expanding the number of products that we sell in our store, so to get ready for an expanded product line we’ve upgraded everything about the store! We recently acquired the best e-commerce software we could get our hands on, so everything about…

  • VHDL SD Card Writer v1.0 For Papilio

    Forum user Matt Ownby has put together some code to be able to write data at full speed (50 MHz) to an SD card, and was kind enough to share it with us!  This is VHDL code for the Papillio One FPGA board that shows how to write to an SD card in a high-speed mode. Here’s the…

  • High Speed Data Transfer Between Two Papilios

    Mike Field (hamster) of Hamsterworks has written a new tutorial on how to achieve a high-speed data transfer between two Papilio One 250k boards.  The goal of the project was to achieve data transfer at 400 mbps, and Mike wound up exceeding the target by a pretty good margin. From Mike’s project description, The aim…

  • Sneak Peek – Build Arduino-Compatible SOCs With New Schematic Editor

    Today we wanted to give you a sneak peek at a new SOC (System On Chip) schematic editor for Papilio that we are working on.  The editor is a drag and drop system that makes it easy (even for beginners) to draw schematics even without necessarily having VHDL experience.  Jack says, What we need is…

  • Watch My Pins! Serial Pro Compatible With Papilio, ZPUino

    We’ve got a quick resource list for Alvie’s Serial Pro (SerPro) here for you today.  Serial Pro is compatible with Papilio and ZPUino, and is RPC-like, fast, small and useful for when you don’t want your data to be lost or corrupted. Alvie says, This library (actually a set of C++ templates) was developed for my arduino…

  • Arcade Game Trifecta On Papilio Pro, Arcade MegaWing

    Forum user and regular contributor Alex recently dropped us a line on the forums.  He was saying something about getting new arcade games running on the Papilio Pro with the Arcade MegaWing.  Turns out he’s got three arcade games going (Ladybug, Dorodon, and Cosmic Avenger) and is using a PS/2 keyboard for controls. Alex says, [The games]…

  • ZPUino Wishbone Simulator

    Want to simulate your Wishbone peripherals without the overhead of synthesizing or simulating the full ZPUino Soft Processor? We’ve been working on porting a stepper control core to work as a wishbone peripheral on the ZPUino. To help us out with this process Alvie put together a really cool wishbone testbench that lets us simulate…

  • 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…