Gadget Factory

Gadget Factory

  • Propeller 1 Open Source

    This is a little bit of old news by now, but it’s still super cool. Parallax has open sourced their Propeller 1 Verilog code! This means you can have a Propeller 1 on your FPGA board. 🙂 The only downside is that it is quite large – in order to implement all 8 properller cores…

  • Kickstarter Lessons Learned Presentation at the DaVinci Institute in Denver, Colorado

    I was asked to speak at a local Inventors Institute about the lessons learned from my recent Kickstarter’s. Here is a youtube video of that presentation.  

  • As Simple as Possible – Embedded.FM Podcast interview about Papilio.

    I was invited to do a podcast interview with the good people over at Embedded.FM, it was fun talking about FPGA’s and the Papilio! Thank you for having me on the show Chris and Elicia! Listen to the full podcast here. Jack Gassett ( @gadgetfactory ) is the creator of the open source FPGA  Papilio…

  • Papilio Pro Spanish Review

    Pedro Hernandez is a cofounder of  Pcdemano.com a spanish website that makes reviews about the Arduino, raspberry pi, BananaPi and more.  He recently decided to add FPGA’s to that list and chose the Papilio Pro as an FPGA development board to start with. Today he posted his first review for an FPGA board and a nice introduction to FPGA’s for all the Spanish…

  • Hamster’s HDMI Input Wing in Action!

    Check this out, this is really cool. In this video Hamster grabs HDMI input from a special Wing that he designed and then converts it to 8-bit VGA format so he can send it out of the 8-bit VGA port of the LogicStart MegaWing! Take a look at this video of it in action: http://youtu.be/AvHPYmEQb04 Find…

  • Papilio DUO Pre-Orders Now Available On Backerkit

    Great news! Papilio DUO pre-orders are finally here , we are using Backerkit to take pre-orders and we are offering so many exciting add-ons with some good discounts. Please visit the pre-orders page here to take advantage from these discounts and make sure you get your Papilio DUO board as soon as we get them in stock.…

  • Retrocade ADC Demo project for PlanAhead

    Papilio community member “Offroad” put together this nice little ADC demo for the RetroCade Synth. It puts the ADC chips through their paces and includes a PlanAhead project and source code.         Anyway, one result is an ADC demo that got out of necessity a little more polished than planned. Controls LED…

  • PLIP August 2014: Soft Core Processor with ZPUIno / ZAP / Papilio

    Colin O’Flynn makes a cool video showing the ZAP IDE in action! Watch as he makes a custom PWM peripheral, adds it into the ZPUino Soft Processor, and writes C code to control it. Jump to 37:10 mark to see it working! Full details at http://programmablelogicinpractice.com in August 2014 Issue of Circuit Cellar. Code is…