Workshop update on Bus Pirate firmware, Bus Blaster v3, and Bus Blaster v4. A quick look at our new Nasty Clamp camera tripods too. Bus Pirate firmware v6.1 is now available Bus Blaster JTAG debugger CPLD development boards use a bigger version of the CPLD on the Bus Blaster Nasty Clamps You can get Bus […]
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Workshop videos roundup
Here’s a list of the videos we’ve posted in the last few months. More are on the way. Our goal isn’t to replace written content. Videos don’t get indexed by search engines, and you can’t print it out and take it to your workbench. We just want to show what’s going on in the workshop, […]
NoDaddy: Small outage while we leave GoDaddy
There may be a few moments of outages here and there. We transferred our domain registration from GoDaddy.com to Name.com. There’s a couple reasons. First, you may have heard about the kerfuffle where GoDaddy supported a particularly noxious piece of anti-piracy law called SOPA. That’s not cool. They’ve lost a fair few big customers over […]
43oh winner PCB: camera intervalometer
43oh, a forum dedicated to the MSP430 microcontroller, hosts a design contest. Last month we gave free PCB coupons to the winners. The winners also let us host their boards in the free PCB drawer. This PCB is an MSP430-based camera intervalometer for taking time lapse photos. It triggers cameras with an infrared control, and […]
Bus Pirate firmware v6.0 now available
Bus Pirate firmware v6.0 is now available for download. v6 includes a ton of fixes for hardware v3 and v4. Hardware v4 is much more usable, and several new v4 features are enabled. A huge thanks to Brent for all his contributions to hardware v4 support! Download BusPirate.package.v6.0.zip release package Firmware update instructions for hardware […]
Workshop video #01: Sjaak solders a QFN chip, attempts the BGA challenge
We took our cameras on the road and visited Sjaak’s workshop this week. He showed us how he solders QFN chips with a bit of hot air and normal drag-soldering. We also surprised him with a challenge to solder a tiny BGA chip, see how it turns out. Here’s some links mentioned in the video: […]
Comments seem to be down on some posts
Our apologies, there is an an unknown error commenting on the workshop video post and some other posts (such as this one). We’ll try to get it worked out ASAP. This post is a test to see if only new posts are broken. Sorry for the rapid fire posting. For some reason this posts accepts […]
Workshop video: Sjaak solders a QFN and BGA chip
Sorry, comments are not working on this post for unknown reasons. Please check out our workshop video here.
Hacker Hostels: Visit hacker spaces, stay cheap, share your skills
Travel to hacker spaces, stay there cheap, share your skillz. Cool idea: Traveling to other Hackerspaces = GOOD Spending a lot of money on Hotel fees = BAD… The Goal: Negate one of the larger expenses associated with travel, namely HOTEL FEES, in order to further promote idea cross-pollination through visitor, ambassador, and Hacker In […]
Connect multiple tact switches to a single microcontroller pin
How to get input from multiple tact switches with a single input pin: A technique of interfacing multiple tact switches using a single ADC input pin was demonstrated using the PIC12F683 microcontroller. A digital input from four tact switches were individually read through the AN0 ADC channel and displayed it back on an LED. While […]
Use Bus Pirate to upload Sketch to Arduino Ethernet
Use the Bus Pirate to upload sketches to an Arduino Ethernet: I just got a new Arduino Ethernet board and had some troubles uploading the Firmware. After some research I finally found a solution using my Bus Pirate v3 Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly […]
Happy New Year 2012 from Dangerous Prototypes
Happy New Year! Thank you for reading the blog and being part of our community in 2011. We’re looking forward to more open hardware projects, more how-tos, more videos, more free PCBs, and more hacking in 2012.
Logic Sniffer: Vote for signal display annotation style
Jawi is developing a new version of the Logic Sniffer client app. He’s currently deciding on which style to use for annotation. Help him out by casting your vote in the forum. The OLS client supports the annotating of data to present additional information along with the signal data. For example, many of the decoding […]
Christmas 2011 geek gifts. What did you get?
What geek gifts did you get? We liked these gloves that work on capacitive touch screens like iPods, phones, etc. Silver threads in the fabric stimulate the screen. Now we don’t have to take off our gloves to reply in the forum.
Forum login issues? Try this link to clear cookies
If you have problems logging in to the forum today, please try this link to clear your forum cookies. That should fix up any lingering issues after yesterday’s server migration. If this does or doesn’t work for you, please let us know. Another option, guaranteed to work, is to clear your browser cookies. On Fire […]
Welcome to (another) new server
Happy holidays from everyone at Dangerous Prototypes! If you see this post, you’ve arrived at our new server. It has even more power to serve up new prototypes. This is also a test of the blog, Twitter, and Facebook integration. Support is available on Christmas, just give us a shout in the forum.
Workshop update: firmware and soldering station
An update from the workshop. Bus Pirate firmware v6 is coming, IR Toy v22 is now in beta. Also a look at the Aoyue 968 soldering station. Tools we use wiki Bus Pirate firmware development IR Toy firmware v22 development Grab the latest v6 firmware release candidate here.
Bulk part order unboxing
It’s not too impressive, but it is the biggest bulk order we’ve ever done at one time. This order stretches the limit of our photo light tent. Considering we only make prototypes, we’re pretty proud of it. Here’s what we got this time: 50PCS USB Type-B Female Right-Angle PCB Mount Jack 100PCS USB MINI-B Female […]
Bus Pirate week, day 5 – measure a capacitor and parts unboxing
This week is dedicated to Bus Pirate development. Today we hacked the Bus Pirate to do crude capacitor measurement. You could use any microcontroller to do this, but one nice thing about the PIC24FJ is that it has a 32bit timer to measure large value capacitors. In the video: How to measure capacitors with the […]
Get your stuff made – Tokyo open hardware presentation
Here’s a video of our presentation about manufacturing open hardware at Make Tokyo Meeting. You can download the slides here. This is a highly condensed version of the same presentation we gave at the Open Hardware Summit and Homecamp. We cut it down so we could still fit in the allotted time if a Japanese […]