GIVEAWAY: Two OSH Park prize packs
This week we’re giving away two OSH Park prize packs featuring:
- Special Dorkbot PBX Bus Pirate v4
- SO-24 and SSOP-24 breakout boards
- Big protoboard
These are the famous purple PCBs from Laen’s OSH Park PCB service. We got a handful of freebies at a party at Macetech’s place during Maker Faire San Francisco. Leave a comment on this post with a project idea, or the reason why you want one, and this board could be yours on Monday.
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Purple PCBs.
Right there is why I need these.
Everything looks better in purple.
I am trying to construct a 16×2 LCD shift register board interface at the moment and the LCD is not coming on. A bus pirate would be ideal to spot whether it is down to dodgy soldering or a blown shift register.
i don’t have a bus pirate and i think that for my next project a secret one ;) … i will need it.
I have a Nexus S and the 16gb of memory is too small and I like to make a bluetooth sd card harddrive to expand my memory
I have many SSOP chips and need to fit them into ordinary protoboard.
Nice, I don’t have a bus pirate and a purple one will be really useful. Finally i’ll be able to hack my router . Also i have a couple of ICs that will be happy to end on one of those breakout boards instead of being dead bugs, :D.
And OSH PCB are really amazing, they look fantastic, have a gold finish, are really superior to what you can get from iTead.
I am in dire need of a bus pirate, and purple is most definitely my favorite color. I have a pile of stuff to take apart and hack together. Would love to start out my prototyping with this equipment.
PS love what you guys post!
I definitely could use a Bus Pirate to create some awesome stuff with my Raspberry Pi, Arduino Uno or Launchpad M430. And c’mon, it’s purple. Just that fact makes it an “must have”
A purple bus pirate would stand out nicely against my green FTDI board. Looking to make the need for a dedicated(read expensive) USB Xilinx cable to program cpld’s when a printer port is not available. Unless the green BP-4 board becomes available in the DP store :).
It’s…all…so…beautiful….
I’m trying to build replacement electronics for these toy laser tag guns (http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/light-strike), to add features like easy expandability, new game modes, new weapons, new sounds, wireless score-keeping, and things like laser taser tag (https://twitter.com/pdp7/status/229810612501352448/photo/1/large).
A bus pirate and some protoboards would be great tools for developing this!
I would like a BP v4 to work on the concept of an HID interface so I can use the BP without drivers.
I will build interface board for thermal printer (LPT1245) mechanism. It will be really cheap and Open Source. The interface boards i have seen, are quite expensive relative to the mechanism. PURPLE Bus Pirate will be great
I desperately need a Bus Pirate to debug why quadcopter is refusing to fly right! The ability to read the I2C from the purple FreeIMU board I made would be invaluable!
Proto board would be great for an arduino temperature controlled project and I always wanted to learn how to use the bus pirate and interfacing with old and unused electronics around the house.
I would just like the Bus Pirate PCB, I gave my Bus Pirate v3 to my girlfriend who wants to start her own electronic projects (actually she’d like a led cube but she still have to learn the basics). Anyways I thought that a bus pirate could be a great educational tool to understand various protocols and how to interface different devices.
The problem now is that I don’t have one. I was about to buy a new one from SeeedStudio when I saw you were giving away a PCB. I already have most of the components in stock so I could cut spending a little on this one.
I have started in getting my hands dirty with STM32VLDISCOVERY board. A Bus Pirate would surely be one of the best tools in the box aside from being a great company to the board when trying to learn Cortex-M3 programming and development. The breakout boards and the protoboard will be used to make experiments or projects (thinking of I2C, SPI, or USART capabilities). :-)
I just fried my existing bus pirate, and I need some more prototyping / breakout boards for the hardware audio beat detection and light control system I’m working on (see website link).
Because I want to be a Bus Pirate V4 guinea pig!
Really wish it were officially released faster…
I have green, red, white and yellow SSOP breakout boards lying around, could do with some purple to add to my collection :)
I’ve been soooo needing to get up and running. Bus Pirate would be awesome.
the breakouts would be perfect for my usb-controlled audio mixer project. well, the Bus Pirate would be perfect for just about everything :)
I’m currently reading documentation of a MAX13036 that will be used for reducing circuitry for an automotive level monitor, a bus pirate would be great for the testing this chip’s SPI interface.
Also, I’m planning on implementing a car collision detector with a BMA180, which has I2C and SPI interfaces and a Bus Pirate would be really useful.
I am working on an IMU for a RC submarine (no joke), and the bus pirate would be great for helping me work with the sensors. I also am wanting to get in to electronic speed controller design.
Adam
I desperately want one of these to troubleshoot my newly bought E-Mu Proteus/1 from 1989 (it’s older than me, yay!), since one of the eproms seems to have died/has problems, causing ~64 patches to be blank space.. Might not sound like a lot, but on a machine with not even 200 patches that is a fair amount :(
-V
I’ve made cool things with the Bus Pirate v3.5, now I want to make cool things with a purple Bus Pirate v4, especially using the JTAG mode.
I would like to get serial access on my NAS server, to remove and upgrade the frankly pathetic firmware. There appears to be a hardware serial port on the board but I have no way of communicating…. Bus Pirate sounds like the perfect tool. Plus in purple too!
Bus Pirate pcb is the reason…
I have a bunch of AS5040 Rotary Encoder ICs that I need to experiment with to get feedback for my UGV motor drive system (dual 250W DC motors), SSOP breakouts and Bus Pirate would be perfect for experimenting in this scenario, especially for testing the daisy chaining of AS5040′s.
The purple PCBs look awesome. Would be a great chance to practice my SMD hand soldering skills. The bus pirate would be amazingly useful to mess about and do something with some of the ICs that I’ve managed to accumulate over the years…
Hi
I do not have a bus pirate , and I will need it for my next project -a temperature unit
The break out boards , is just what I was waiting for, for the current project. , i have to adapt a SO22
Ic.
And the big proto-board could be used for the same current project
If I get the bus pirate one it will be my first programmer. This will enable me to start experiencing some project that I imagine from time to time.
i want one because its purple and shiny
Why would someone want a Bus Pirate? C’mon, because its awesome and its a must have for every hacker, and unfortunately I still dont have one :( . I wonder if these giveaways are fake or I’m just not lucky enough :P
Hmm, my Pickit 2 just died, and i want to program a pic for my PartNinja.
I’ve already programmed the pic24F256 a while ago with the BP firmware, but didn’t continue with it due to a lack of a proper PCB (TQFP isn’t exactly breadboard / perfboard friendly).
So, this package would be welcome here.
I work in school and help a lot of students that study automation industrial. There are good equipaments, but nothing compared at buspirate, which can read differents signals on your inputs.
We work a lot with PIC, doing process controled by microcontrolers with some sensors (gyro, acelerometer, displays(not 16×2), microsd, bluetooth) that has output SPI/Serial, but haven’t good tool to read these signals. Normally we test like “trial and error”, until finally it work, or not. Last month i bought some enc28j60, to stimulate they make some house control, like i did following the Ian project at Hackaday. (ps: i am working on this project yet). I put some pictures on my little webserver(that i want hack the serial output too, to work directlly with pic and store dynamic pages with inputs from pic, on this webserver (model NS-K330)). (link: xpiolx.no-ip.org > Web-Piol)
One buspirate will be very hopeful to me, and to these students that sometime ask me for help.
I want one. *-*
Sorry for my bad english. ;)
I have a new born and as usual got many gifts, one of them being a baby monitor with load o features (2 segment led display for temperature monitoring, a special mat which goes under the baby which monitors breathing and movement, and of course sound streaming over rf). What I’d like to do with the bus pirate is to “decode” what is what and modify the baby monitor (adding a bluetooth (HC05) module) to connect to a raspberry pi and logging the data over time to analyze temperature over movement frequency and breathing, also deviations from patterns.
Thank you.
I’m building a new speedometer, an logger (aka blackbox) & an RFID ignition for my 27 year old car. For this I am going to use parts of an RFID door lock which I will reverse engineering.
I would love to try my hand at making the bus pirate. I have many things I would like to try and talk to with it.
Thank you for all you do for the community of DIY’ers,
Dan
Purple?!? Just love to have it!
I would love a bus pirate
Back when I ordered my BPv3.5 board to build I could have chosen the PBv4 but most of the firmware wasn’t yet implemented and I needed a functional bus pirate in that moment. BPv4 has some attractive new functions like the ability to program CPLD’s without having to switch firmwares (something I do a lot with my BP) so it would be nice to try BPv4.
Plus, I need to order a few components for a project but they are very few and I’m waiting to have something else to order to compensate shipping costs. Parts for BPv4 would be a perfect excuse.
Can’t hurt to at least try. Now that I have a source of income, I can work on hacking some old equipment laying around, and maybe come be struck with the inspiration to make my own project.
I already got a bus pirate and enough prototyping boards, but a breakout board is always handy to have. But mostly I want one for admiring the purple color with ENIG plating…..
I have been wanting to put together a BPv4 for a while, but there were no free PCBs available. I have the other parts I need, but I’ve been holding off ordering the PCB — but if I had this one, I’d have a nice purple BPv4 to match my purple BPv3-FTDI. : )
I am working on a telescope control/pointing system. Hoping eventually to interface with smartphone(s).
BPv5 You know the one with either a PIC32MX @ 80mips or dsPIC33E @ 70 mips
Besides gotta have the whole set of colours to impress the chicks.
Lean’s boards are the best, I use his pcb service all the time.
Its purple! And its a bus pirate! One of the must have tools! And my old one just died….
I would really like getting the purple BP pcb to build a pirate I’ll use to reverse doorbells, switches and temperature sensors. I will use the results for home automation, to save energy and make a better and more user friendly home!
Plenty of SOIC chips, not enough breakouts ;)
One can never have enough Bus Pirates, certainly a way to test skillet skills. That said, I’m due for a hot air reflow gun, so maybe that would be best-used to populate a purple BusPIrate.
Protoboard, I’d use for my super-secret Commodore-64 hack ;)
Hi Ian,
I would be very proud to own a kind of “Bus Pirate Collector” …
Hand-made flux (thanks D.P) is ready
The show can begin …
Have a nice trip in Singapoure ,
Skappy
Okay, so here is what I would do with these sweet prizes, first, fill up the the breakout boards with MCU’s then go to Mouser to by the parts I would need to complete the BP4, then with the protoboard I would set up (with the MCU’s) different scenarios to show off the BP4. That would be quite fun.
Prototyping with ssop learning to program new chips with the bus pirate.
I am a senior technician at a company that designs power supplies for various third parties. I am trying very hard to work my way up to engineer as my company begins the switch from all analog designs to digitally controlled power supplies. I have invested in various dsPIC microelectronics and the appropriate development boards as that the customers demand my company use. To learn how to make power supplies with pic micros, I bought some old Russian VFD tubes and some Nixies and am working on the power supplies to drive them.
The bus pirate would be useful for interfacing with the SPI and I2C maxim drivers I have to make learning the initializing and driving sequences easier as I learn to program the PICs.
The SO and SSOP boards would be useful for the analog 3.3 and 5V power supplies I am also designing to supply power for the PIC so I can run the entire project off a single 12V wall-wart. Currently I’ve only been using parts available in a DIP package. The SO and SSOP boards would allow me to try some devices that only come in surface mount packages.
My project isn’t a build. Seeing as I’ve never used a bus pirate, my first “project” would simply using it on anything and everything in my house that I can till I had a good feel for it (and maybe some new ideas) and work from there…
I would love to have the bus pirate board to practice soldering surface mount components! The bus pirate would also be useful for an interactive wireless home monitoring project that I’m current working on. The breakout boards would also be very useful, as some of the components that I’m working with only comes in SSOP form.
My garage was broken into last week. Starting from more or less the beginning in terms of equipment and going back to the drawing board on projects. One of which was nearly complete. As far as putting the bus pirate to use…the sky is the limit. I have everything to rebuild, restructure, or if it can’t be avoided, rebuy when the wallet permits. One which I was personally excited about was a retinal scan display with a usb interface.
I would do a diy bus pirate for a poor student like me :)
Dorkbot PDX is presumably named after the local IATA code. They’re not a PBX (Public Branch eXchange) for the Portland TelCo…
I want to donate my v3.5 BP to my brother and that would leave me BP’less so I could use the nice purple v4!
I would like to have a bus pirate for some serial and I2C hacking.
This is like a collectors edition piece!!! I’d so want it,since I’ve been itching to get myself a Bus Pirate,and what better than a stellar purple and gold Laen PCB! :)
I’ve got this weird Color LCD(Its a CSTN Display from Sharp,unlisted on its website) which was part of an old cellphone.. I’m pretty sure its SPI with some parallel commands,but thats all I know about it.
When I saw the LCD,first thing that hit my mind..”thats a job for the Bus Pirate!” ..
I’m also trying to mod a DELL laptop battery pack to get it to do fancy stuff(make it a programmable PSU which can be charged also),for which a Bus Pirate is perfect to help me with the I2C temperature sensor and EEPROMs and playing with the Battery Management interface it has.
With my coming-of-age birthday next week,A purple Bus Pirate would be the ultimate gift for a young hardware hacker like me ;-)
I would like to have a Bus Pirate 4 as I am reverse engineering the N64 to remake a smaller PCB (for a portable N64), and I would like to use it to program a CPLD to act as a driver between a screen accepting parallel RGB (24 bits) and the output of the N64
(http://members.optusnet.com.au/eviltim/n64rgb/n64rgb.html)
This is not mine, but it shows the principle. In here, they used a CPLD to transform the digital signal of the N64 into analog RGB. I’d do something similar, but instead I’d transform the serial digital signal into parallel one in order to be able to feed it directly into a screen without any digital to analog conversion. Hence, I would also eliminate the need for a screen driver, eliminating another PCB and obtaining more space in the portable.
I would be very happy with the Big Protoboard,
I will use it for my “butler” robot, i will make a control panel of it with 3 joysticks and a few buttons a some LED’s.
Breakout boards, can’t have enough of them. Since I do all my prototyping on perfboard I always need breakout boards for a lot of components. Adding pins to resistors, leds, … isn’t a problem, but IC’s…
So a SSOP-24 breakout board will come in really usefull :)
Currently building a computer controller which turns head turns and nods into virtual actions.
I tried to get the Simplecortex V1.3 giveaway to help in making a software defined radio, but I didn’t get it :(
But I have not given up! I started the SDR project and have already managed to receive some HF ham stuff. Unfortunately some of the circuitry is currently on some ugly brown protoboard. I think it would look alot prettier if the protoboard was purple!
http://tuomasnylund.fi/files/sdr2.jpg
I also want to mess with some mux chips and microcontrollers for the project that are in SOIC packages. The breakouts would be useful.
I’d also love to have a v4 bus pirate, I have the v3 at the moment and I’ve found it extremely useful.
I could use one of these boards to mount a AS5040 Magnetic encoder on! These are SSOP16.
And a bus pirate is also very handy to have.
Bus pirate is perfect to get working my big pile of teared apart LCDs, sensors and other leftover parts :)
Hey, is that a buspirate or a plain **PCB** for a buspirate?
I already have a buspirate, so I don’t need one of those.
but IF it’s the plain PCB, then I want it. I need some practice doing surface mount soldering, and it looks like it’ll give me plenty to do since it’s going to rain all summer here in the UK.
And like everyone else has said, purples everyone’s favorite colour.
I am just starting to learn this stuff and would love to find out more about a bus pirate and how to use one.
I would try using this to add MIDI to an electro-mechanical chimes unit.
Use the bus prirate to debug my quadrapod spider that I’m working on and use the smd breakout for some sensors on old spidy :-)
Could use the breakout boards for my wildlife videocam
Would love to have a V4 Bus Pirate to get scripting back. I’ve been chasing a corner case bug where a PIC I2C slave randomly resets when being barraged with writes. I could probably rig something up with another PIC as the master, but I trust the Bus Pirate code much more as it’s reliable and field tested.
Also the SO adapters would be handy for not having to dead bug 8 and 16 SOIC SPI flash when I need to test a new part.