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  • ChipWhisperer-Lite: A New Era of Hardware Security Research

    Our favorite FPGA security hacker, Colin O’Flynn, has a new Kickstarter project that just went online. It’s the ChipWhisperer-Lite which packs a serious punch with a Spartan 6 FPGA, 10-bit ADC, and an XMega Micro. Included with the board is software and tutorials to get you up to speed with embedded hardware security research projects…

  • The Papilio DUO and the new shields are finally here!

    Here at Gadget Factory we are happy to announce that our next generation of products are now available at our online store. The long awaited Papilio DUO along with the new Papilio Shields are finally here after a successful Kickstarter campaign that helped us raise more than $62.000 in funds to make this dream come…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • SmartMatrix Animated GIF Player

    Nice guide and library for playing animated GIFs on those RGB LED Array’s. We should be able to port this library to the ZPUino for use with the RGB LED Wing.   This guide will show you how to add a microSD card to a Teensy 3.1 to play back animated GIFs on a 32×32…

  • Meet the WIDGEDUINO

    This is an interesting looking toolkit for the Arduino, and the Papilio, that lets you control widgets on your computer screen from your Arduino. With that said, the WIDGEDUINO aims at making this process even faster and easier. Bristling with an array of meters, graphs and data entry widgets, the WIDGEDUINO is sure to be…

  • At Maker Faire Lisbon: ZPUino

    Our good friend Alvaro Lopes is going to be at the Lisbon Maker Faire from the 19th – 21st of September 2014. So if you are in the area be sure to stop by the ZPUino booth and say hello! ZPUino is a SoC (System on a Chip) developed by Álvaro Lopes , a senior…

  • An Interesting Take On FPGAs From A R-Pi Point Of View

    From Raspberry Pi @ Gadgetoid comes an interesting overview on FPGAs – in particular, our flagship Papilio-series dev boards. It’s refreshing to read Phillip Howard’s angle on all this, as it is decidedly from an Arduino/ Raspberry Pi angle on things. The article is a well-written synopsis and can serve its purpose well for those…