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Category Archives: Bus Pirate
Recovering e3000 with the Bus Pirate
@Badger32d tweeted, “Recovering this e3000 with my Bus Pirate.” Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
Bus Pirate LCD adapter v3 back in stock
The Bus Pirate LCD adapter v3 is back in stock at Seeed Studio. This breakout board lets you drive, and test HD44780, and compatible LCDs with your Bus Pirate v3. We changed the PCB to one of our standard PCB sizes, namely the DP6037 v1. Get an LCD adapter for $9.
Another Bus Pirate reference sheet
mofosyne shared this Bus Pirate reference sheet [PDF!] he made in the forum: Being new to bus pirate, I created my own printable stickers to cut and stick labels to the case and probes. I also took the time to compile an A4 Bus Pirate v3.b reference sheet from various sources, that would be useful to somebody […]
Bus Pirate meets the 93LC46B
Bob writes: I found an old EEPROM chip in my spare parts collection, the 93LC46B. The data sheet says it communicates using 3-wire serial I/O, and can store 1024 bits organized either as 8- or 16-bit words. Next was the question of how to wire the bus pirate to the chip. I liked the idea […]
Buspirate issues solved?
Recently the forum is flooded with people that are experiencing troubles with the Buspirate v3.6. Pieter in the forum was no exception. He first tried the Buspirate on his Windows 8.1 and Vista machine and went to the forum after finding out hise buspirate didn’t respond to anything. The supportteam in the forum suspected the PIC was not programmed or […]
Using Bus Pirate to program I2C RTC
@FrozenElecBlog tweeted, “Just published a video about the Bus Pirate — love this thing!!!”
Experience with the Bus Pirate
Steve of Big Mess o’ Wires shares his impressions of the Bus Pirate as a prototyping and test tool: I finally got curious enough that I decided to just buy one, and get the sense of the Bus Pirate through hands-on experimentation. My conclusion is: it’s great! Imagine every hardware programmer, debugger, serial cable, and interface tool […]
Bus Pirate reference card
jrychter shared this Bus Pirate reference card he made in the forum: The Bus Pirate from Dangerous Prototypes is a really useful tool. I use it regularly to bring up and test new I2C devices, or as a cheap protocol analyzer for I2C and SPI. Unfortunately, the supplied cables aren’t clearly labeled (only color-coded), and I found the […]
Working with the Bus Pirate Arduino Shield
Andrew Rohne writes: The Bus Pirate Arduino shield is a discontinued item from Dangerous Prototypes. I picked up the PCB via a free PCB coupon a while back, built it a few months later, and then finally decided to use it because I think I have something to use it with. Note the key word – […]
WiiBP, a simple Bus Pirate software controller for Wii Nunchuk
@TwitK82 tweeted: ” I just released a new project on BP4. A software to control a Wii Nunchuk.” Today we are going to showing our first project with Bus Pirate. That’s WiiBP, a simple BP software controller for Wii Nunchuk. This is the first version, even now in development, but with two cute features: – check the […]
Bus Pirate v3.6 back in stock
Bus Pirate v3.6 universal serial interface is back in stock at Seeed Studio. This is the updated v3.6 in a standard PCB footprint. You can get a simple laser-cut acrylic protector for this board for only 3 bucks. Bus Pirate is a hacking multi-tool that has the capability to interface with most IC bus protocols […]
Testing a MAX7219 LED array with Bus Pirate
Frank over at RaspberryAlphaOmega writes: After thinking about how to drive the MAX7219 LED array I built yesterday, it occurred to me that maybe this is an ideal time to get to the bottom of how to use the Bus Pirate board that I failed to use with a MCP3002 ADC chip. This time I was […]
Bus Pirate LCD adapter v3 back in stock
The Bus Pirate LCD adapter v3 is back in stock at Seeed Studio. This breakout board lets you drive, and test HD44780, and compatible LCDs with your Bus Pirate v3. We changed the PCB to one of our standard PCB sizes, namely the DP6037 v1. Get an LCD adapter for $9.
MC HCK hacker’s DIY $5 MCU board
The MC HCK is an entirely open source dev board based on the Freescale MK20DX32VLF5 which supports USB for easy programming. It features 8KB RAM, 32KB program flash + 32KB data flash. ““MC” is short for microcontroller, and “HCK” stands for “hacking”, “hackers”, “hackspaces”, but shorter, smaller. Like the MC HCK board itself.” Its developers […]
Debugging the WM8731 ADC/DAC with the Bus Pirate
Pasdesignal tweeted, “I solved i2s/i2c issues on my raspberry pi with the help of Bus Pirate”: I have been experimenting with the WM8731 ADC/DAC chip (datasheet) and the raspberry pi using i2s and the aSOC drivers. I chose this CODEC because it already had an aSOC driver written, and Koalo had already written the other […]
Breadboard version Bus Pirate and ST7920
BrianGriffin posted his Breadboard version Bus Pirate and ST7920 in the project log forum: Over this weekend I cobbled up a breadboard version of Bus Pirate with the extra stuff I have from the drawer (the main chip PIC24FJ64GA002 is there too), dumped the bootloader and dumped the rest of the firmware with a dirt […]
Atmega328p PPM Encoder programming with the Bus Pirate
The Ardupilot guys have posted this brief tutorial on how to program the ATMega328p using the Bus Pirate and AVRDUDE software: Connect the Bus Pirate and check that everything is working. You will need to use the same technique to locate the serial port name for the Bus Pirate that you use with Arduino. Note […]
DIY adapter for flashing ATtiny84/85 with the Bus Pirate
@indigoid tweeted this picture of his DIY adapter for flashing ATtiny84/85 with the Bus Pirate: Very dodgy DIY adapter for flashing ATtiny84/85 via Bus Pirate. Shown w/ ATtiny85. No more jumpers! Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
Bus Pirate 3D-printed case
Here’s a 3D-printed Bus Pirate case by foosel, created in OpenSCAD: This is a case for the Bus Pirate v3.6 from Dangerous Prototypes/Seeedstudio. It offers access to the header and the ICSP connector and a clear view on the 4 status LEDs. The case was created with OpenSCAD, the source file is attached and can […]