Here’s a video tutorial on how to set up the Bus Prate for the MIDI protocol from Bent-Tronics: Until now there hasn’t been much on the interwebs on how to set up the Dangerous Prototypes Bus Pirate for decoding MIDI data. Here’s my contribution, which happens to be on International Talk Like a Pirate Day. More […]
Category Archives: Bus Pirate
Controlling Bus Pirate with Python
Scott W Harden writes, “After using the AVR-ISP mkII for years (actually the cheap eBay knock-offs) to program ATMEL AVR microcontrollers, today I gave the Bus Pirate a shot. Far more than just a microcontroller programmer, this little board is basically a serial interface to basic microcontroller peripherals.” Full details at SWHarden homepage. Get your own handy […]
Using a Bus Pirate to connect to a Raspberry Pi
Scott Dixon describes on his website how he used the Bus Pirate to connect to a Raspberry Pi: The other day I found myself with a Rasberry Pi that I wanted to use but I had forgotten my FTDI UART cable. What I did have is my Bus Pirate v3.6 and I found it was […]
C64/SX64 RAM Cartridge (SD2IEC part)
Sjaak designed and built a C64 RAM/ROM cartridge, which has a 6264 SRAM chip and an Atmel 644. He did program an Atmega with a Bus Pirate: Today came in the Atmega644P’s in TQFP package I scored on eBay. Today I’m focusing on the SD2IEC part of the RAM cartridge. I was a bit scary to order […]
DroidScript, Bus Pirate helper app for your Android device
JamesNewton writes, “I finally managed to write a USB OTG helper script for talking to the Bus Pirate. The biggest problem I have with the Bus Pirate is that on the human side it speaks in very terse, hard to remember, codes. The point of this script is to make that easy by providing a […]
Bus Pirate SPI sniffer using RealTerm for highspeed transfer
pyblendnet-js writes: The Bus Pirate has at least three other out-of-the-box methods of sniffing SPI data from a Master and Slave communication: – The Bus Pirate GUI – Bus Pirate SPI Sniffer Utility – Third party tools such as the Sump Logic Analyzer Client – an example here. I believe the fastest of these may […]
Make your own Katy
Steve Chamberlin wrote a how-to on building your own 68 Katy. We wrote about it previously: Assembling the PCB requires soldering one surface mount component, the 44 pin CPLD in TQFP package. It can be soldered with a standard iron using the drag soldering method (my preference), with hot air, or with a toaster oven […]
ESP8266 firmware flashing with a Bus Pirate
Jonathan Endersby writes, “Flashing the firmware on an ESP8266 is apparently not so straight forward. This is the process I used to get it to work reliably.” Via Hackaday.io Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
DIY csCNC – 2 (Linistepper driver and testing with Bus Pirate)
Oakkar7 has a nice build log on his DIY csCNC, he writes: Since I started building DIY CNC, I checked the free, opensource motor controller. There are several alternatives. I chose linisteppr controller. – Simple and cheap (my first priority :) ) and I can source required parts locally – microstepping, open design (Especially, it’s […]
Bus Pirate v3.8 free PCB build
@kizzap88 tweeted picture of his free Bus Pirate v3.8 PCB build. The Bus Pirate is an open source hacker multi-tool that talks to electronic stuff. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. […]
Bus Pirate support in Python3 for I2C scripting
Steve aka hwstar writes, “I just wanted to let you know that I modified the python Buspirate Bitbang.py file and the I2C.py file to support Python 3.4 for a project I’m working on, and wanted to share these files with the community as they are open source. I uploaded the modified files to Github. These files […]
Talk SPI to EEPROM part3: Test SPI Protocol with Bus Pirate
Jan Cumps tested out SPI Protocol using a Bus Pirate: It wasn’t my initial intention to use the Bus Pirate. But my first naive attempts to talk from Hercules to EEPROM failed. I could create the SPI instructions with the LaunchPad, but I didn’t get a reply back from the 25LC256. It’s in these cases that […]
LED strip testing with Bus Pirate
Drew tested out some addressable RGB LEDs he bought during Hacker Camp, using a Bus Pirate. Via Shenzhen_hacker_hole WeChat group. The LDP6803 uses SPI for communication. A power supply and a Bus Pirate and I was able to change colors without code. The chip uses a 7bit encoding of colors so setting individual colors can’t […]
ESP-03 modules with the Bus Pirate
Tim Jagenberg writes: Today I received the ESP-03 modules I had ordered from Shanghai. A nice little breakout for the ESP8266EX with ceramic antenna. Due to the 2mm spacing between the contacts on the sides, I had to bend the headers into shape before soldering them to the module. As an initial function test I used […]
Programming Arduino Pro Mini with Bus Pirate
Dana Harding writes: Program an Arduino Pro Mini 328 [sparkfun] board using a Bus Pirate. I tried setting up the Bus Pirate as a transparent bridge for UART to use the Arduino boot loader. I got as far as manually sending 0x30 0x20, and receiving a 0x10 0x14 – establishing communication over UART… But couldn’t get […]
Bus Pirate: Custom UART baud rates
Emil of Unwind.se wrote an article on how to use custom UART baudrates on a Bus Pirate: I made Bus Pirate-baud rate to help when setting custom UART baud rates on the #buspirate. Easier than binary downloads. Via Twitter. Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
Using the Bus Pirate to see if it’s alive- TI HDC1000
Inderpreet of EmbeddedCode writes: This mini article is part of a larger project an I will link to it at the end. For this project, I was required to use the TI HDC1000 and instead of buying a module, I decided to get samples and a make a PCB of my own. This would be great […]
Bus Pirate v3.8 free PCB build
Tommi of Mikropure documents his experience building the free Bus Pirate v3.8 PCB. The Bus Pirate is an open source hacker multi-tool that talks to electronic stuff. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free […]
Getting started with an I2C LCD using a Bus Pirate
Inderpreet over at Embedded Code writes: I got one of these (The LCD!) LCDs from the budget and the motive is to use them to display air quality. Low and behold I got them and these things are tiny… I mean more than I thought. BUT they should get the job done. This post is […]
Free PCB the other way around
Last week Sjaak got a free PCB and a small SMD antenna from a user called Claude on the esp8266.com forum . Claude made the board using Dirtypcbs.com. As Sjaak is a huge fan of QFN chips he went straight to his mancave and started to assemble the board. Close-up of the soldered QFN chip under a USB microscope. There were […]