S3C used the Bus Pirate SPI sniffer mode to decode output from a serial magnetic card swipe reader. More at S3C’s site, and in the forum. Regular Demo: articles will return next week. Demo: is a weekly series that demonstrates devices with the Bus Pirate. Come back next Monday for another new demo. Continue reading […]
Category Archives: demonstrations
Demo: Interface an SD card with the Bus Pirate
nada demonstrates how to initialize, read, and write an SD card with the Bus Pirate SPI library. Don’t miss the GPS logger project that the SD card went into. Get your own assembled Bus Pirate v3 for $30, including worldwide shipping. Via Hack a Day
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 […]
Demo: MaxSonar-EZ1
Chipres contributed a Bus Pirate demo of a MaxSonar-EZ1 ultrasonic range finder with serial output. Demo: is a weekly series that demonstrates devices with the Bus Pirate. Come back next Monday for another new demo. Continue reading the demo below.
Demo: Parallax RFID reader
This is an old version, see the latest version on the documentation wiki. julky demonstrated a USB->serial bridge for the Parallax RFID reader with the Bus Pirate. The Parallax board reads passive RFID EM4100 type RFID tags, and outputs the tag ID as simple serial data at 2400bps. It’s the first inexpensive RFID reader to […]
Demo: KS0074 serial LCD
This is an old version, see the latest version on the documentation wiki. Sjaak posted this demo of a KS0074 serial LCD in the forum: I needed to test the SPI library with the newterm branch. I had a nice display from a dead Siemens phone. It uses a KS0074 display (which is an sort […]
Demo: HMC6352 digital compass breakout board
This is an old version, see the latest version on the documentation wiki. The HMC6352 is a simple compass chip with an I2C interface. If your next unmanned vehicle needs a compass, check out this chip. It has multiple operating modes that balance power use and update frequency. Continuous acquisition provides rapid heading updates, while […]
Demo: AT45DB041D 4Mbit SPI flash memory
This is an old version, see the latest version on the documentation wiki. This demo is what the Bus Pirate is all about. A AT45DB041D 4Mbit flash memory stores the FPGA design on the open source logic analyzer project currently known as SUMP PUMP. We’ve worked with EEPROMs in the past, but this chip is […]
Demo: Sure LED matrix
This is an old version, see the latest version on the documentation wiki. You may have come across this 16×24 LED matrix board on eBay or at Sure Electronics. Each board has three 8×8 LED blocks and a controller to drive them. A simple three-wire serial interface toggles each LED and configures the overall brightness […]