Category Archives: Bus Pirate

Stained hardwood case for the Bus Pirate v4

Here’s a stained maple-wood case for the Bus pirate v4, milled by Vince at the Xerocraft hackerspace in Tuscan Arizona. The Bus Pirate is an open source hacker multi-tool that talks to electronic stuff. It’s got a bunch of features an intrepid hacker might need to prototype their next project. The Bus Pirate is sold […]

EEWeb: Bus Pirate as low-cost JTAG programmer

Victor Joukov noticed this article on the EEWeb electrical engineering community about Programming With Low-Cost JTAG Tools, referencing the Bus Pirate. Notable is the Bus Pirate from Dangerous Prototypes. Originally designed as a tool to sniff, monitor, inject or bus protocols like SPI, its open platform has meant that the ‘community’ has developed an XSVF […]

Another update on the hybrid race car

The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hybrid race car made it into competition, check out some videos of the car running below. All last week was the competition. This is the first year RPI made it through all of the inspections and was able to compete. Next year is going to be even greater! Overall it consisted […]

Laser cut acrylic case for Bus Pirate v4

Here’s another cool laser cut acrylic case for the Bus Pirate. It’s made out of 4 layers of 2mm transparent acrylic. The inner two layers simultaneously act as standoffs and as an edge to the enclosure. The SVG source files are available if anyone wants to laser cut his design. I designed a laser cut […]

HOW-TO: Bus Pirate PIC 24 analog to digital converter tutorial

The Bus Pirate is a handy debugging tool, but it’s also a 16 bit PIC 24FJ64GA002 development board. You don’t need a programmer to play, just upload the firmware over USB using the Bus Pirate’s nearly-impossible-to-brick bootloader. It’s easy to go back to the original Bus Pirate firmware at any time. This demo is step […]

Machined acrylic case for the Bus Pirate

Vibrolax machined a case for his Bus Pirate: It was made from a scrap piece of 0.125″ acrylic sheet. My co-worker Arpad gets credit for the smooth edges, as he machined it on a Bridgeport mill. The 4-40 standoffs provides clearance between the top sheet and the Bus Pirate. A single washer provides clearance between […]

HOW-TO: Learn PIC serial UART with your Bus Pirate

The Bus Pirate is a handy debugging tool, but it’s also a 16 bit PIC 24FJ64GA002 development board. You don’t need a programmer to play, just upload the firmware over USB using the Bus Pirate’s nearly-impossible-to-brick bootloader. It’s easy to go back to the original Bus Pirate firmware at any time. This demo is step […]

Control your Bus Pirate with an Android Tablet

N3mesys successfully controlled the Bus Pirate with an Android Tablet using the USB Serial Monitor app. This software lets Android enabled devices connect to FTDI USB-to-serial chips. The FT232RL and FT230X ICs are supported, so this works with older Arduinos and lots of other stuff with the common USB-to-serial chip. The only thing you need […]

DIY Bus Pirate case

Stan Hall informs us of a Bus Pirate case he made at the OHM Space Corporation, an Oklahoma City hackerspace. Stan created the case using the hackerspace’s member-built CNC router. Case materials include plywood, acrylic and rubber bands. Here’s the link to his writeup. Get your own Bus Pirate for less than $40. Via the […]

Integrating the XSVF player into Bus Pirate firmware

Jean modified the Bus Pirate firmware to integrate the standalone XSVF player into it. The XSVF player is an alternate firmware for the Bus Pirate that allows it to program CPLDs and FPGAs via XSVF files. I have integrated the support of XSVF Player within the current 6.1 BP firmware as a new bitbang mode. […]

Programing your DIY Bus Pirate v3.5-SOIC build with the MSP430

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 […]