Brettinman got a Bus Pirate from Hack a Day’s preorder, but he couldn’t get it working with the default MAC serial terminal. He used ZTerm and documented how to use the Bus Pirate with a MAC.
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I mentioned it on Brett’s site too, but the easiest way on a Mac is to use screen. You just have to pass the baud rate as the 2nd param. For example:
screen /dev/ttySOMETHING 115200
You’ll need to do an ‘ls /dev/tty*’ to find the serial port that’s been created for your Bus Pirate first, obviously.
Oh, and to get out of screen you type CTRL-A to get into its command mode, then type ‘quit’ and press ENTER.
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I went ahead and posted a few things about using mac and the bus pirate V3 here:
Nothing special just some information and pictures..
http://blog.synthetos.com/bus-pirate-v3-basics-on-mac/Ril3y
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