Dom shares his impressions of the Bus Pirate as a prototyping and test tool: OK I don’t say it often but the Bus Pirate is a superb piece of kit. The vast bulk of my work is design work with a wide range of IC’s and embedded devices, for this I spend a large amount […]
Category Archives: Bus Pirate
Pirateship Bus Pirate GUI
Ronan writes about a new Bus Pirate GUI he’s working on: Hi. I’m reading about your “One Bus Pirate programs another” idea. Curiously enough, I had a pretty close idea to that. Instead of just programming another PIC, I wrote a frontend to Bus Pirate’s basic commands. Right now, I’m working on implementing a plugin […]
Bus Pirate OpenOCD walk-through
Jrt posted some notes about using the Bus Pirate with OpenOCD: It does work – but it’s not slick or fast. If you want a cheap JTAG adapter for remote debugging or big flash writes, get an FTDI-2232 based one. But, it’ll be fine for fiddling with bootloaders or just interrogating hardware. We agree that […]
Feet for Ril3y’s Bus Pirate case
RatRanch found a good accessory for Ril3y’s laser-cut Bus Pirate case: I made some very effective non-slip “feet” for the bottom using tine covers left over from a dishwasher repair kit that I obtained from an Amazon seller for about US $5 with shipping. I’d imagine that similar parts could be found in any well […]
One Bus Pirate programs another?
Can one Bus Pirate program another? Not yet, but we’ve been hard at work on it. This post is about a new application, available here, that will program PIC 24Fs from the Bus Pirate. Everything looks great on a logic analyzer, but it’s not working yet. Maybe you can help us figure it out, and […]
Printable Bus Pirate v2go case
We’ve seen a lot of Bus Pirate housings: mint tins, shrink tube, development boards, and laser cut acrylic. Now we can add a 3D-printed case to the list. Gatsu printed a Bus Pirate v2go case with a Makerbot. You can download the public domain design files at Thingiverse. Thanks to LeissKG for the tip!
Synthetos laser cut Bus Pirate case
teslafreak posted this picture of Ril3y’s laser cut case for the Bus Pirate in the forum: I bought two of these, a black one and a clear one. They recently arrived, and look great. The construction is fantastic. They are also possible to take apart without tools, which is awesome. Here’s a pic (though my […]
Bus Pirate and FSA03 GPS how-to
Ril3y shows how to use a FSA03 GPS with the Bus Pirate: I have a few projects that I would like to include GPS data in, in the near future. So I went ahead and picked up a nice ublox based GPS. You can get it here: I wanted to used it right away. So […]
Ril3y’s laser cut Bus Pirate case available
Back in January we posted about Ril3y’s laser cut Bus Pirate case. Due to a Paypal issue it wasn’t possible to complete an order, but now it seems to be working. Synthetos Laboratories (Ril3y’s store) now lists them in clear ($12.99), translucent red, and translucent black (both $14.99). Up to three cases can be shipped […]
Using the Bus Pirate with Arch Linux
scj made a wiki about using the Bus Pirate with Arch Linux. It covers creating a udev rule to name the Bus Pirate /dev/buspirate, and communication with minicom, screen, and picocom. Thanks for the tip!
OpenOCD accepts Bus Pirate patch
The OpenOCD project accepted Michal Demin’s patch that adds Bus Pirate support to the popular open source JTAG debugging client. Read the tutorial here. Congratulations Michal!
Bus Pirate on “Ask and Engineer” chat
The Bus Pirate is a topic on Adafruit Industries’ “Ask an Engineer” chat tonight at 10pm ET. If you missed it, they keep previous chat videos in the Adafruit forums.
Bus Pirate in stock at Adafruit Industries
Adafruit Industries now has the Bus Pirate and probe cables in stock and ready to ship. This is the same gear you get at Seeed, but it ships from the US today. Every Bus Pirate sold at Adafruit contributes to further development of the project. This is our first distribution deal, and it’s really exciting. […]
Bus Pirate firmware v4.2 released
Bus Pirate firmware v4.2 is available for download. THIS IS FOR BOOTLOADER v4 ONLY. If you haven’t upgraded to the version 4 bootloader, see the v4 bootloader upgrade guide. Major changes include: OpenOCD JTAG debugging support (thanks robots!) New speed settings in I2C, raw2/3wire, updated also in binmode Fixed error in 1-wire reset command in […]
Bus Pirate OpenOCD JTAG how-to
Michal Demin posted a tutorial for the OpenOCD JTAG debugging support he added to the Bus Pirate. Some time ago, I have added support to OpenOCD to be able to use Buspirate as JTAG interface. This how-to will show you, how to setup all the things necessary. Things you will need: – Buspirate – Computer […]
Demo: Noritake Serial VFD
Edouard Lafargue let us republish his demonstration of a Noritake GU140x32-7002 Serial VFD screen (may prompt about a secure certificate). The Noritake VFD used here is a “Show and Tell” 140×32 semi-graphical VFD. This display has the big advantage of being able to display graphics and manage so-called ’user windows’, making it a good choice […]
W1N9Zr0's Bus Pirate case
W1N9Zr0 posted this full-featured Bus Pirate case in the forum: Here is my take on a Bus Pirate case. It’s made of a PS2 game case and integrates two breadboards, the bus pirate and an A23 12v battery for PIC programming. Flickr photoset. Be sure to check out the forum thread if you’re interested in […]
Cool new Bus Pirate features in development
Sjaak demonstrated a basic scripting language that could be integrated into the Bus Pirate terminal. Take a look and tell us what you think.
Bus Pirate: Firmware updates with ds30 Loader
See the latest version in the documentation wiki. In preparation for the v4.2 Bus Pirate firmware release, here’s an instruction guide for upgrading with the ds30 Loader GUI. Firmware v4+ requires a new bootloader. The new bootloader is an adaptation of the open source ds30 Loader. The new bootloader v4+ uses a new upgrade application, […]
Flashrom release
ROM programmers and motherboard hackers will be happy to know that there’s a new release of Flashrom for Windows, ported by pgeorgi and posted informally in the forum. Flashrom is an open source utility for working with flash storage chips. It supports a bunch of flash chips commonly used on motherboards to hold the system […]