Villamany previously posted a wood Bus Pirate case, here’s a new plastic case using the same CNC. There’s even more DIY cases here. Get a Bus Pirate v3b for $30, including worldwide shipping at Seeed Studio. Adafruit also has the Bus Pirate and probe cables in stock and ready to ship.
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Live Webcast: Open Hardware Summit 2010
Open Hardware Summit on USTREAM. Live from the New York Hall of Science in Queens, NYC. We’ll be watching and chatting.
#twatch, USB Infrared Toy now CC-BY-SA
To mark the one-year anniversary of Dangerous Prototypes, and timed suspiciously close to the Open Hardware Summit, we’re releasing the #twatch and USB Infrared Toy under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. These designs were formally restricted to non-commercial use, now they’re available for any use, including commercial derivatives. All our* projects and content […]
Happy Birthday #twatch
It’s been a year since our first project, the #twatch ethernet LCD backpack (part 1, part 2). The #twatch scrolls the current top 10 topics on Twitter. It also works with programs like LCD Smartie and LCDproc to display PC stats and playlist info. There’s a bunch of great user-contributed scripts too. Nearly 500 #twatches […]
STM32 cheapie Discovery dev board
ST now has a Discovery evaluation board for the STM32 ARM chip, only $12 at Mouser. Thanks for the tip!
Free tickets to the Open Hardware Summit
Adafruit reports that there’s less then 30 tickets left for the Open Hardware Summit this week. We have two sponsor tickets to give away. If you can make it please contact us by today.
Bus Pirate cable identification flags
Greeeg uses flags to identify the cables on his Bus Pirate. Thanks for the tip!
Logic Sniffer laser cut case
siklosi made parag0n’s laser cut case for the Logic Sniffer. This is the second fabbed copy of parag0n’s case that we’ve seen. Here’s some other user-submitted cases. You can order the Logic Sniffer at Seeed Studio for $45, including worldwide shipping. Don’t forget that Seeed now has probe cables for $6 each. Every order supports […]
Free PCB Sunday: Bus Pirate LCD 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. Our PCBs are made through Seeed Studio’s Fusion board service. This week we’ve got two PCBs […]
Bus Pirate wood case
Villamany posted this wood Bus Pirate case in the forum. Great pictures of a new CNC setup too. There’s more DIY cases here. Get a Bus Pirate v3b for $30, including worldwide shipping at Seeed Studio. Adafruit also has the Bus Pirate and probe cables in stock and ready to ship.
mini-Blaster and Bus Blaster boards
A big box of boards came today. Here’s the PCBs for the FT232 inexpensive programmer and the Bus Blaster JTAG programmer. The first draft of these boards are white.
Using SVN (SubVersioN)
We have a short tutorial on using TortoiseSVN to check out source code from online repositories like Google Code. Learn how to grab the latest source and contribute code to your favorite open source projects.
Seeeduino Film V0.9b
The Seeeduino Film we covered earlier is now available. Film is a flexible development board that includes an Atmega168 with the Arduino bootloader. For portable or wearable applications, it has an on-board li-poly battery charger. Albert has been working hard to get this design right, congraduations on the first batch! Maybe when this is perfected […]
Prototype: Bus Pirate LCD adapter v2
The Bus Pirate LCD adapter v2 enables the mysterious LCD mode on your Bus Pirate. The Bus Pirate can’t control an HD44780 LCD alone, it needs help from a few extra parts. Read the how-to and build your own adapter, or buy it assembled for $9. The v2 adapter is a complete rework of the […]
Programmable memory guide
EPROMs are old-school data storage chips with a little window that exposes the silicon inside. Once these chips are programmed, they can only be erased by shining ultraviolet light through the window. The EPROM help page is a guide to identifying and working with these devices. It also covers more modern programmable memory like EEPROM, […]
USB Infrared Toy 101 overview
Here’s a new USB Infrared Toy 101 overview. Learn the basic parts of the IR Toy, setup the IR Toy for the first time, and command your PC with a remote control. Get the IR Toy for $20, including worldwide shipping.
Design a DC to DC switchmode converter
EEVblog has a new video on switchmode DC to DC converters using an MC34063. Via the computer controlled power supply thread in the forum.
IR Toy housing from old film roll container
PaulAl posted this picture of his IR toy housing made from an old film roll container. Get the IR Toy for $20, including worldwide shipping.
Bus Pirate EEPROM daughter board
Eric built an EEPROM daughter board that fits on the ISCP header of the Bus Pirate. This design had been floating around the forum for awhile. It’s not officially supported in the current firmware, but code exists to save and load BASIC scripts from an external EEPROM daughter board. Get a Bus Pirate v3b for […]
Entertainment: Copyright-free music
MusOpen has raised over $13,000 to record classical music for the public domain. The complete symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky will be recorded. These pieces have been free from copyright for a long time, but most recorded performances have a separate copyright. This isn’t hacking related, but we’re always happy to see new […]