Sleepwalker3 posted pictures of his free Bus Pirate v3.5a SOIC DIY edition PCB build. These boards were designed with the larger SOIC PIC microcontrollers, making them easier to solder for beginners. Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors. Via the forum.
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Bus Pirate makes life easier
M2M writes: First off, you guys Rock! I have had so much productive fun with BP and I just got it a few days ago. Here is a little thing I did to make a project weigh less. When you are prototyping GPS M2M you don’t always want to carry your laptop outside to get […]
JTAG flashing Proxmark3 using Bus Pirate
MMN-o from Umea Hackerspace successfully recovered his Proxmark3 using the Bus Pirate: Sure, there are cheap, hackable alternatives that connect to the parallell port, but that interface is unfortunately of a pretty bygone era. So given that I did not have access to a true parallell port at the time, I had to keep looking for alternatives. Essentially […]
Bus Pirate script to recover bricked radio
Koolatron over at the Bitcraze forum re-program the Crazyradio over SPI using the BusPirate and this script, available at github: I’ve knocked together a perl script to reflash a busted crazyradio over SPI using a Bus Pirate. This saved me from a firmware upgrade gone bad. Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our […]
Bus Pirate in a mint candy container
hms made a simple recycled Bus Pirate case from a mint candy container: Bus pirate v3.6 “sweet case”. Just have to drill some holes for the connectors. Via Twitter.
Bus Pirate v3.6 Sick of Beige v1 acrylic case v1 back in stock
Bus Pirate v3.6 Sick of Beige acrylic case v1 is back in stock at Seeed Studio. Version 1 of the basic case is simple, cheap, easy to assemble, and fits our Sick of Beige standard PCB sizes. Check out our tutorial on how to customize Sick of Beige cases. Get Bus Pirate v3.6 acrylic case […]
PAW13 Sniff-A-Lot for Bus Pirate update
Mats posted an update on his Sniff-A-Lot for Bus Pirate: So, I found my Bus Pirate and then made a RS-232 breakout cable with a male/female DB9 and tapped off rx/tx from pin 2/3 and gnd from pin 5. And hooked it up to the first serial device I had in reach – a magstrip […]
Bus Pirate v4 back in stock
Bus Pirate v4 is back in stock at Seeed Studio. The Bus Pirate is an open source hacker multi-tool that talks to electronic stuff. It’s got a bunch of features an intrepid hacker might need to prototype their next project. You can get a Bus Pirate v4 for $40, including worldwide shipping.
Bus Pirate in a necktie clip case
Oakkar7 made this cool Bus Pirate housing made from a necktie clip case: After getting BP, I try to make a case as usual. Mostly, I prefer acrylic style case like my OBLS and PICKit2. DP calls it “Sick of Begie” case. This time, I found out something which was suitable for the Bus Pirate […]
WyoLum Emergents G+ : FREE Bus Pirate contest!
Justin Shaw over at WyoLum Emergents G+ is giving away Bus Pirate V3.5c: Seeed Studio has generously donated some cools open hardware to giveaway. This week: Bus Pirate V3.5c Please describe your awesome plans for this Bus Pirate v3.5. Winner agrees to post progress, schematics, and code to the final project. To apply, post in WyoLum […]
Bus Pirate Arduino Shield free PCB build
Mikelelere built a Bus Pirate Arduino Shield from a free PCB. This board gives the Arduino the same front-end circuity as the Bus Pirate. I have assembled the Bus Pirate Shield white PCB I received recently. As shown in the photo, I had to do some greenwiring to solder a SOIC 8 EEPROM instead of the […]
Bin access to I2C-memories in C
Thommy writes, “didn’t find any C program that compiled on Linux for using the binary mode in I2C (or my google karma sucked), so hacked together one. Maybe someone else can have use for it or its source code. Can be found under GitHub.com. Both read and write implemented.” Get an assembled Bus Pirate for […]
Bus Pirate LCD Adapter v2b free PCB build
MickM built a free Bus Pirate LCD Adapter v2b PCB. 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. Get an LCD adapter for $9.
Bus Pirate to the rescue!
Bus Pirate to the rescue once again! Bertho writes: I’ve been working on a small flipdot controller which is supposed to talk serial, SPI and I2C all at the same time. Making serial to work is easy, but both SPI and I2C require properly formatted input streams to test with and are a bit more […]
Bus Pirate console
Here’s a Bus Pirate console by x893, that is available at github. Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
Bus Pirate and flashrom save another laptop
Forum member ph1ph1l0u reports success rescuing his Asus laptop from a bad bios flash using flashrom and the buspirate. Get your own Bus Pirate for $30, including worldwide shipping.
GPS module with the Bus Pirate
Crennsmind tweeted: With the help of a Bus Pirate and a PCI Express GPS module I saw on @hackaday, I finally have GPS Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
Fixed the Seagate 7200.11 hard drive with the Bus Pirate
Bill Farrow fixed the Seagate 7200.11 hard drive firmware BSY bug with the Bus Pirate: I quickly diagnosed the problem down to a dead HDD. A quick google search later and I discover that I have been hit by the well known Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 BSY bug. Too many power cycles on the drive and it […]
EEWeb PULSE: Bus Pirate as low-cost JTAG programmer
FourthDr tweeted this article on EEWeb PULSE about Programming with Low-Cost JTAG tools that references the Bus Pirate: I would recommend the Bus Pirate as a very low cost programming tool (and it’s useable for so many other things too!). I have even written a guide on how you use it, which is available here(PDF!). […]
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 […]