Gadget Factory

Gadget Factory

  • DesignLab 0.2.0 Released for Windows and Linux.

    Hello everyone, Exciting news! We just hit a major milestone with a DesignLab 0.2.0 release for both Windows and Linux that can be downloaded here. This is the first release that has all of the core functionality envisioned for DesignLab in place: -Every sketch has an FPGA circuit associated with it and there is smooth…

  • Wire Wrap 101

    Wire wrapping is an incredible prototyping method that produces very secure and clean circuits on perf boards. When you are ready to move beyond the breadboard but not ready to design a pcb then wire wrapping is the perfect solution. But, if you are like me you always heard of wire wrapping but never saw…

  • HDMI Light V2

    I was browsing HackADay when I came across an article called, “FPGA Ambilight Clone Packs a Ton of Features“. I immediately got excited and thought, “I hope we can port this to the Papilio.” When I opened the article I saw to my great delight that the project WAS done on the Papilio! Even better…

  • BitCoin Miner Library for DesignLab

    A new BitCoin library has been released for DesignLab over at the DesignLab library directory. Keep watching the directory for new libraries.               Mine BitCoin’s with your Papilio! It’s not terribly fast, but it’s still fun to mine your own bitcoins. via forum.gadgetfactory.net

  • Gameduino Library Released for DesignLab

    The Gameduino Library is now available for DesignLab! Check out the new library at the new DesignLab library directory. New libraries will be added every week!                 Gameduino is a really great Open Source FPGA project put together by James Bowman. It allows you to add graphics and…

  • An SDK for the ESP8266 WiFi Chip

    The ESP8266 is a chip that turned a lot of heads recently, stuffing a WiFi radio, TCP/IP stack, and all the required bits to get a microcontroller on the Internet into a tiny, $5 module. It’s an interesting chip, not only because it’s a UART to WiFi module, allowing nearly anything to get on the…

  • Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) Explained by [Bil Herd]

    Bil Herd, the designer of the Commodore 128, talks about DDS (Direct Digital Synthesis) on a CPLD. There is some excellent information here that is very applicable to the Papilio FPGA. Maybe we can even adopt this project to DesignLab. “One of the acronyms you may hear thrown around is DDS which stands for Direct…

  • Cyber Monday Special Sale – Papilio One 500K for the lowest price ever! $45.99

    Cyber Monday only – Pick up a Papilio One 500K for the lowest price we have ever offered – $45.99. We wanted to run a special sale on Cyber Monday as a thank you for all the support we have received from the Papilio community over the years. We just got a big shipment of Papilio…