In the summer of 2009 Ian Lesnet setup a Bus Pirate v2go preorder as a fundraiser for Hack a Day. It was a lot of fun, so he started Dangerous Prototypes. We’ve done one preorder project per month since September 2009. There might be readers who didn’t follow the Hack a Day preorder, so we […]
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Easy vias on homemade double sided PCBs
Double sided home-etched PCBs require a lot of patience and luck. Both sides need to be aligned properly, and via wires have to be soldered between the layers so top and bottom are connected. The usual process for connecting the layers is to insert a small wire in each via hole and solder it. This […]
Demo: Interface an SD card with the Bus Pirate
nada demonstrates how to initialize, read, and write an SD card with the Bus Pirate SPI library. Don’t miss the GPS logger project that the SD card went into. Get your own assembled Bus Pirate v3 for $30, including worldwide shipping. Via Hack a Day
USB IR Toy Shipping?
There is an unconfirmed report that the first USB IR Toys will ship today. We’ll update when we hear more. The USB IR Toy is currently listed as sold-out at Seeed, we’re working on continuous stock.
Free PCB Sunday: USB RGB color changer
We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few professionally-made PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. This is a USB controlled RGB color changing light. Someone made some minor modifications to […]
OpenOCD accepts Bus Pirate patch
The OpenOCD project accepted Michal Demin’s patch that adds Bus Pirate support to the popular open source JTAG debugging client. Read the tutorial here. Congratulations Michal!
Bus Pirate on “Ask and Engineer” chat
The Bus Pirate is a topic on Adafruit Industries’ “Ask an Engineer” chat tonight at 10pm ET. If you missed it, they keep previous chat videos in the Adafruit forums.
Choosing a substitute electronic part
Choosing substitute electronic components is a common snag for beginners. What do you do if you can’t get the exact part used in a project? Part finder posed this question about the USB IR Toy: This component is hard to find from my local store: D1, Small signal diode (DO323, BAS16HT1G, Rectifier 85V/0.2A Small Signal […]
Seeed manufacturing update
USB IR Toy The USB IR Toy is back from manufacturing and is being prepared to ship now. Parts were ready before the Chinese Spring holiday, but then things stalled, Seeed moved, and they’re about two weeks behind. The good news is that our packages from Seeed are now arriving in less than a week […]
Bus Pirate in stock at Adafruit Industries
Adafruit Industries now has the Bus Pirate and probe cables in stock and ready to ship. This is the same gear you get at Seeed, but it ships from the US today. Every Bus Pirate sold at Adafruit contributes to further development of the project. This is our first distribution deal, and it’s really exciting. […]
More Open Logic Sniffer cable options
There’s no update from Seeed about a custom Open Logic Sniffer cable, but Sjaak recommended a few other options from Seeed: 1 pin dual-female jumper wire – 300mm ($0.30) 1 pin dual-female jumper wire 100mm 50pcs pack ($4.99) You can pick up an assembled Open Logic Sniffer at Seeed Studio for $45, including worldwide shipping.
Web platform USB power supply
See the latest version on the documentation wiki. Markus Gritsch added a USB power supply jumper to his web platform: I found it convenient to be able to power the Web Platform using my iPhone USB charger and a normal USB cable. It is also convenient when presenting the board to friends and powering it […]
Forum migration complete
The forum migration is complete. You can now access the forum at http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum. All links to the old forum at whereisian.com should forward correctly to the new address with a 301 redirect. Accounts are all the same, and all the attachments were transferred. There is a bug with attachment thumbnails, but we’ll try to get […]
Forum migration starting
Update: migration is complete. You can now access the forum at http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum. The forum will be migrated to http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum starting in a few minutes. Both forums will be locked while we migrate the latest posts. Links to the old URL should be automagically forwarded to the new address.
Welcome to the new host
If you see this message, you’ve landed at our new digs at Laughing Squid. More free PCBs for the first couple commenters, help us test the new install by leaving a comment.
Moving day giveaway
Over the next 24 hours we’re migrating to cloud hosting at Laughing Squid. WordPress has been a fantastic (and free!) host, but we need to move. We really want the forum to be at dangerousprototypes.com, and we can’t do that with the current setup. The blog domain name is mapped in a way that only […]
Free PCB Sunday: PIC and AVR programming adapter
We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. PCBs by Seeed Studio. This is a PIC and AVR programming adapter for the Bus Pirate […]
More PCB art from Ril3y
Ril3y left a comment on the Lincoln PCB with a few other artistic boards. Not really a “circuit” but it was an attempt at how cool I could get a pcb. Next is to bake in a circuit next time. I try to use copper to do quite a bit of the words needed too! […]
Bus Pirate firmware v4.2 released
Bus Pirate firmware v4.2 is available for download. THIS IS FOR BOOTLOADER v4 ONLY. If you haven’t upgraded to the version 4 bootloader, see the v4 bootloader upgrade guide. Major changes include: OpenOCD JTAG debugging support (thanks robots!) New speed settings in I2C, raw2/3wire, updated also in binmode Fixed error in 1-wire reset command in […]
Bus Pirate OpenOCD JTAG how-to
Michal Demin posted a tutorial for the OpenOCD JTAG debugging support he added to the Bus Pirate. Some time ago, I have added support to OpenOCD to be able to use Buspirate as JTAG interface. This how-to will show you, how to setup all the things necessary. Things you will need: – Buspirate – Computer […]