Category Archives: Bus Pirate

Bus Pirate and Open Bench Logic Sniffer: Reverse engineering an RF light switch

Skywodd tweetted about reverse engineering an RF 433MHz light switch (machine translation) using Arduino, Bus Pirate, and the Open Logic Sniffer. You can get Bus Pirate for $30, or grab a Logic Sniffer for $50. All including free worldwide shipping. Via TweetDeck.

WORKSHOP VIDEO #30: Bus Pirate LCD Adapter v3 overview and demo

EEVblog brought up the Bus Pirate LCD adapter this week, so we though it was a good time to talk about the latest v3 hardware revision and do a simple demo. This is a small board that has everything needed to control and test common HD44780 LCD character displays with the Bus Pirate. The latest […]

Controlling a camera with the Bus Pirate

Hacromatic posted a tutorial on interfacing an Arduino camera module with the Bus Pirate: The Bus Pirate from Dangerous Prototypes is one of my favorite debugging tools. It’s a really handy gadget for probing and poking around on various communications buses to get an understanding of how to interface to new chips or devices. It […]

3D Model: Bus Pirate LCD adapter v3a

Today’s 3D model is a small revision of the Bus Pirate LCD adapter v3. We added an optional 2×8 HD44780 header footprint to the board, as per EEVblog’s suggestion. Check out our tutorial on how to build 3D models from Cadsoft Eagle board files, as well as the tutorial on how to render life like […]

Bus Pirate on EEVblog and 2×8 connector support on LCD adapter

Dave over at EEVblog tested an HD44780 LCD, and he used the Bus Pirate and LCD adapter in his demo. In the video he works with an LCD that has a 2×8 header, but the LCD adapter only supports a 1×16 type. Here’s a prototype LCD adapter board updated with an optional 2×8 LCD header. […]

Unboxing of the Meizu MX Android phone and gaining root access with the Bus Pirate

Adam unboxes the Meizu Mx and gets root access using the Bus Pirate. The phone is torn down to the main-board to gain access to the UART test points on the board. After that it was a simple matter of connecting the Bus Pirate to the phones UART lines. Also check out Adam’s rant on […]

WORKSHOP VIDEO #28: Exploring the serial port

While USB is all around us, the humble (virtual) serial port is still everywhere. Today we explore the serial interface on the Infrared Toy, Bus Pirate, and Logic Sniffer. See a demonstration of the binary interfaces and commands normally used only by software utilities. Grab some terminal software like Tera Term, and Hercules and follow along. […]

Sabernetics I2C OLED display with the Bus Pirate

Glitch did some tests for his Sabernetics I2C OLED display using the Bus Pirate: The Sabernetics OLED module was definitely worth the $24.95 and just goes to show that funding for neat electronics projects is possible for hobbyists. The display module chosen seems to be of high quality, and produces a sharp, sunlight-readable image with minimal […]

Workshop Update for June 27th, 2012

Today we cleaned up the workshop for tomorrow’s video, we checked some bug fixes on the Bus Pirate firmware (look for a new release soon), and started a Mouser order to be placed tomorrow. We also went over our partlist, and started gathering information on how much a basic kit of our most commonly used […]

Fixing the EDID ROM of a monitor using the Bus Pirate

Matthias fixed the EDID ROM of his Samsung monitor using the Bus Pirate. He documented the whole process on his blog. Also included is a tip on how to connect the Bus Pirate to I2C line through the VGA, or DVI cable. This post is about fixing a broken EDID ROM in a monitor. There […]

Another aluminum CNC milled Bus Pirate case

A few days ago we wrote about Mmattice’s milled aluminum case, here’s another design, a CNC milled case from Epninety. Drawn in CamBam, and cut on a CNC converted Taig micromill with Mach3. I didn’t have any engraving tools, so abused a cheap 45degree spot drill instead. No screws holding the case together, there is […]

Laser cut acrylic Bus Pirate case

Here’s another cool laser cut acrylic case for the Bus Pirate. There are many custom enclosures for Bus Pirate, must be a very popular product (we at LAWICEL AB knows this of course). We sell the Sparkfun version (TOL-09544). The original version was made by Ian Lesnet of Dangerous Prototypes. After looking arround on enclosures […]

HOW TO: Bus Pirate as dev-board, read a voltage and view in terminal

The Bus Pirate uses the PIC24FJ64GA002 microcontroller, and can be used as a development board. In this tutorial we’ll read an analog voltage with an analog to digital converter, and then send it to the PC terminal via the UART. This is a culmination of the previous 3 tutorials ( blink the MODE LED,  ADC […]