Early Bus Pirate prototypes used PIC24FJ64GA002 revision A3 chips. A3 has a bug in the I2C hardware, so we’ve always used a software library to provide I2C on the Bus Pirate. Many, but not all, of the Bus Pirates manufactured by Seeed Studio have a newer, revision B4 chip with working I2C hardware. We showed […]
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Bus Pirate: v3 update
***We’ll start a preorder ($30 assembled, shipped worldwide) if there are a few firm commitments, sign up for notification in the forum.*** This rendering shows the nearly-complete Bus Pirate v3 PCB. Our initial preview of the new hardware generated some really good comments. We decided to swap the PGC and PGD pins of the ICSP […]
Bus Pirate: v3 power-on self-test
Seeed Studio tested the bootloader and terminal of each Bus Pirate prior to shipping. This is a good test, but Seeed requested that we design a more thorough test program for future orders. We implemented a self-test menu option in firmware version 2 that tests most of the hardware and functions on the Bus Pirate […]
Confessions of a prototyper: Bus Pirate v1.5
The Bus Pirate V2a and V2go weren’t the only design candidates for the Bus Pirate v2 series. Here’s a rendering of the Bus Pirate ‘v1.5’, a design that never saw the light of day. This Bus Pirate was meant to be completely portable. It has an LCD to display the terminal, and a keyboard jack […]
Bus Pirate v3: Beating the shortage
UPDATE II: PCB stuffed and tested. UPDATE I:***We’ll start a preorder ($30 assembled, shipped worldwide) if there are a few firm commitments, sign to be notified and check the forum.*** The next version of the Bus Pirate universal serial interface is about a week away from prototyping. Why a new version so soon, when Hack […]