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Category Archives: Bus Pirate
Bus Pirate PIC programmer update
PIC 12/16/18/ds30 programming support for the Bus Pirate is progressing. Sean Nelson, a regular contributor to the Bus Pirate project, submitted a patch that adds serial port support to usbpicprog. The Linux patch compiles, but the Windows port still has some bugs. The picture shows our prototype 13volt power supply for the PIC programmer. It’s […]
Bus Pirate AVRDUDE tutorial
Michal posted detailed instructions for programming AVRs with the Bus Pirate and AVRDUDE. But what happens if you have 2, 3, or even 7 AVRs on the same circuit board? Michal shows us how to use extra Bus Pirate pins to select among AVRs, or drive a 1-to-8 decoder to control even more chips. Michal […]
Bus Pirate IC test PCB
A discussion in the forum led to the creation of a new chip demonstration/test PCB for the Bus Pirate. This board has spaces for several commonly-sampled I2C and 1-Wire devices, and an HD44780 LCD tester: I2C 24LC EEPROM (PTH and SMD) TC74 temperature sensor (PTH) DS1085(L)/DS1077(L) frequency generator (SMD) PCF8563/DS1307 real-time clock (PTH) MCP3021 analog […]
Unbricking a WRT320N router with the Bus Pirate
If you’d like to hack your router, check out this thread about unbricking a WRT320N router using the Bus Pirate. There’s lots of good information about how to connect the Bus Pirate and reset the router. In related Bus Pirate news: We fixed a reported bug in the live UART monitor macro. An updated nightly […]
Bus Pirate high voltage supply with only 6 parts
We used the Bus Pirate and 6 common components to multiply 5volts to over 120volts with a boost converter, a type of switched-mode power supply. Similar circuits are commonly used to power 180volt nixie tubes from low voltage power supplies. This circuit is a simple way to build your first SMPS, but be careful because […]
Bus Pirate review
Design News posted an introduction to the Bus Pirate with a short review: Thumbs up I think Bus Pirate is an interesting project and a very useful tool to have available at the price. I think a great addition to this project would be a GUI front end that would allow you to point/click to […]
Bus Pirate support in Flashrom project
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 BIOS. biosflasher (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger) recently added Bus Pirate support to Flashrom. It should be possible to program SPI flash chips using the next release of Flashrom and the […]
Bus Pirate probe cable unboxing
s3c shared this picture of a Seeed probe cable kit (left) and a homemade cable (right). What we liked most was getting a glimpse at the workspace.
Zeno zit zapper tip reset
The Zeno is an acne treatment device with disposable tips that are electronically limited to 45 or 60 uses. Matt did a system teardown that revealed a Cypress cy8c27443 microcontroller in the main unit and a 128byte I2C EEPROM in the tip. He used the Bus Pirate to sniff I2C traffic going to the EEPROM […]
Bus Pirate Mac-to-basics
Ril3y, designer of the laser etched Bus Pirate case, has a short introduction to using the Bus Pirate with a Mac.
Bus Pirate restock
Bus Pirate v3 preorder 2 is almost sold out. Bus Pirate v3 preorder 3 is now online. Seeed Studio made some additional Bus Pirates, but they won’t ship until next week when the current backlog is cleared. Seeed should list them ASAP. If you want one and they’re sold out, please check back in a […]
C programmer needed for PIC support!
We’re looking for a C programmer who can add serial port output to usbpicprog. It’s all that stands in the way of bringing PIC 12F/16F/18F/ds30 programming to the Bus Pirate*. usbpicprog is an open source multi-platform programmer that uses wxWidgets toolkit and libusb. It currently sends byte commands to a USB HID driver. Your goal, […]
Laser etched Bus Pirate case
Ril3y made a fantastic laser etched Plexiglas case for his Bus Pirate v3 with a command cheat-sheet etched onto the bottom. There’s more pictures of this awesome case in his Flickr photo stream. Bus Pirate preorder 2 should ship this week. There’s still a few (<30) extra preorder 2 Bus Pirates at Seeed Studio, get […]
Bus Pirate PIC programmer?
Last week we made the Bus Pirate into an AVR STK500v2 compatible programmer by porting some existing open source code. Now we’re looking for a similar code-base that programs PIC microcontrollers. The PIC programmer landscape is a bit sketchy. As we understand, it’s not feasible to impersonate an existing programmer interface like the PICKIT2 or […]
Bus Pirate v3 unboxing
Here’s another Bus Pirate v3 unboxing, keep them coming! Preorder 2 should ship this week. There’s still a few (<30) extra preorder 2 Bus Pirates, get one while you can.
Chips: 1-Wire iButton overview
See the latest version in the documentation wiki. Reliq sent a 1-Wire iButton demo using the Bus Pirate: I work in an engineering firm, and the large format color printer we have uses iButtons on the ink tanks to tell the machine what has been plugged in. These particular buttons are write-only. As you can […]
Bus Pirate high voltage power supply
The crew at Robots and Dinosaurs prototyped a high voltage power supply for a geiger counter tube using the Bus Pirate pulse-width modulator. They were able to step up 5volts to 800volts+ with a simple boost converter circuit on a bread board. We always like to see new ways to use the Bus Pirate. Thanks […]
Bus Pirate STK500v2 AVR programmer firmware
See the latest version in the documentation wiki. Here’s an alternate firmware for the Bus Pirate that clones an STK500 programmer for AVR microcontrollers. We ported the GPL’d source from Guido Socher’s AvrUSB500 ATMEGA8-based programmer to the PIC. The firmware should work with any applications that support the STK500 v2 protocol. We used it to […]
Fundamental Logic Bus Pirate build
Matthew Neely documents his experience building the through-hole Bus Pirate kit from Fundimental Logic. Unfortunately, the through-hole kit is out of stock. An assembled Bus Pirate v3 is available for $30 at Seeed Studio, including worldwide shipping.