Simon explained in detail on how to update the Bus Pìrate from firmware v3 to v5 easily. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors Adafruit, Open Source Control Systems, and eHaJo.
Category Archives: Bus Pirate
Bus Pirate pinout sticker
Tayken posted an updated Bus Pirate pinout sticker for v2go in the forum. Source document available for editing. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors Adafruit, Open Source Control Systems, and eHaJo.
eHaJo has the Bus Pirate
eHaJo is the newest Bus Pirate distributor in Germany. Their first shipment of Bus Pirates sold out before they were delivered, now another round is on the way. eHaJo will also have probe cables, cases, and LCD adapters available in 3 to 5 days. Sprechen Sie de_DE? eHaJo contributed a German translation of the Bus […]
Bus Pirate: Sniff smartcard transactions
Philippe has been documenting his Linux Bus Pirate adventures, including a tutorial on sniffing different smartcard protocols: I just tried out my brand new bus pirate on a little project to sniff smartcard transactions (ISO7816). I could happily use the recent raw BRG handling in UART mode and I’m providing on my wiki some tips […]
Bus Pirate firmware v5.10
Bus Pirate firmware v5.10 is ready to download. This version reintroduces AVRDude compatibility, and adds features for faster AVRDude programming. There’s also some minor code changes for MPLAB X compatibility. The Bus Pirate documentation has been updated to reflect these changes. Removed space after prompt for AVRDude compatibility Added SPI write/read function (no CS) for […]
Updated AVRDude for testing
The current version of AVRDude (v5.8) is incompatible with Bus Pirate firmware v5.0-v5.9. Later today we’ll release a Bus Pirate firmware that restores compatibility with v5.8. A more permanent fix is available though. Tim updated AVRDude to be compatible with all Bus Pirate firmwares, and take advantage of some new commands to increase the programming […]
Props to Open Source Control Systems
Tec has great things to say about Open Source Control Systems, one of our newest distributors: I got my BusPirate from Seeed and it’s great, but when I went to use it I realized I was short both grabbers and nifty colored cable to make the probes, so I went to order one online. The […]
Test a Bus Pirate firmware compiled with MPLAB X
doegox compiled a Bus Pirate firmware with optimizations in MPLAB X. With optimizations enabled the main firmware can fit all the add-on modes. We need some help checking if the optimizations broke anything, please test it if you have an opportunity. You can get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also […]
Synthetos Bus Pirate case giveaway
A few weeks ago we had a Synthetos Bus Pirate case giveaway. The original winner didn’t get back to us, so Henrik Hogland will get the case. Get your own laser-cut acrylic Bus Pirate case from Synthetos for $14.99. Cases are available for both the Seeed and SparkFun PCB versions.
Experimental Bus Pirate I2C sniffer upgrade
Darren posted an experimental Bus Pirate firmware with an optimized I2C sniffer. It might work at 400KHz+. Give it a spin and let us know how it goes. We’ll incorporate it into the next release if it tests well.
Bus Pirate and FlashRom saved my mainboard
MrHijet writes with a followup to our previous post, The Bus Pirate and Flashrom saved my mainboard: I already wrote something about the rescue of my computer in my blog, however it was written in german. I flashed my brand new core i7 mainboard as my processor wasn’t recognized correctly. After that, the mainboard was […]
Bus Pirate PIC programming adapter sold out
The Bus Pirate PIC programming adapters we made for developers are already gone. Seeed Studio is working on a couple more, in case some potential developers missed out. We started with a cautious 20 units, just for developers. We expected 20 to last a long time, since it’s totally unsupported hardware. Now we’re wondering where […]
Adafruit reverse engineering gift guide
The Adafruit reverse engineering gift guide is up. It includes the Bus Pirate, our handy tool for lots of prototyping and reversing needs. Today only you can get a Bus Pirate at Adafruit Industries for 10% off, just use the code PIRATE at checkout.
Bus Pirate v4 prototype
This is the first complete working prototype of the Bus Pirate v4. The final header will be shrouded. In a related development, McZ tipped us to the PicPack open source PIC USB virtual serial firmware. It could be just the thing we need for the Bus Pirate v4 (and the Infrared Toy and Logic Sniffer). […]
Bus Pirate on the iPhone
Bus Pirate hacking from a hacked iPhone: Ok so theres a couple of caveats… First, this was done with a v2go, this BP has the serial connection broken out to three pads, easy to connect to. No 5V in pad though, bummer. Second, you need a level shifter, the phone is 3.3V TTL, the BP […]
Hack the IM-ME and extract the sprites
Joby used the Bus Pirate SPI sniffer to extra zombie graphics from an IM-ME. Yesterday, Travis Goodspeed wrote a good post about bitmapped sprites on the IM-me. As a teaser of his upcoming ZombieGotcha game, he released a binary for a demo and challenged people to extract the images and recreate the startup animation. And […]
Hack the MD80 firmware to remove the date display
Villamany got a cheap MD80 video camera from eBay. It has a really annoying feature, it prints the date on the video with no apparent way to disable it. Armed with a Bus Pirate, he dumped the firmware, removed the date, and reprogrammed the camera. Original in Spanish (machine translation). What are you hacking with […]
Bus Pirate PC rescue
The Bus Pirate saves a router, and still has time to rescue a PC. I had a dead PC after a BIOS update went wrong. flashrom and bus pirate to the rescue :-) We always like to hear your Bus Pirate success stories. You can get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide […]
Bus Pirate router rescue
It’s a lot of fun to develop the Bus Pirate, but nothing is more satisfying than hearing that it actually helped someone: I am trying to get a new router setup for when I move to a more permanent home here in a couple weeks. At some point I messed up a config file or […]
Bus Pirate PIC programming adapter
An experimental PIC programming adapter for the Bus Pirate is now available for $7 at Seeed Studio. This is unproven green label hardware. Only buy this if you want to contribute to PIC programming applications like piratePICprog. There is NO software support, and the final hardware will be slightly different. If you need this for […]