Hardwhack bought 2 DIY Bus Pirate v3.5-SOIC PCBs and programmed them using the MSP430 microcontroller. Since he didn’t have any PIC programmers around, he decided to port the AVR Bus Pirate programmer code to a MSP430 MCU. The custom firmware he coded is open source, and available on his site.
I built two DIY Bus Pirates but did not have a PIC programmer or AVR programmer. I used a MSP430 Launchpad using ApProg from Jozef to program the PIC24s. At $4.30, this is probably the cheapest way to program the Bus Pirate.
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nice hack, as he sais its probably the cheapest way to upload the bootlopader into the bus pirate without hasle.