Today is Black Friday, the bustiest shopping day in the US. Every kit-biz is promoting their wares (Adafruit, Make, HacknMod), here’s our plug. In the past three months we’ve released three geeky open source projects that you can buy at Seeed Studio: #twatch network LCD and Twitter scroller ($45 w/LCD, $30 without, shipped) Bus Pirate […]
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Seeed Studio 15% off sale
Most items are 15% off at Seeed Studio today. This doesn’t seem to apply to our projects, we’ll try to get them included in future sales. We’ve been eying these well-organized, but expensive, 0805 resistor and capacitor value sample books. 15%-off might sweeten the deal.
Fundamental Logic Bus Pirate v1 kit now $20
Fundamental Logic was the first company to offer a Bus Pirate for sale. Their Bus Pirate v1a through-hole kit is currently on sale for $20. v1a is completely compatible with the latest firmware updates, the main difference between v1a and v2 & v3 is the connection type (serial vs USB) and the pull-up resistors (manual […]
Hack a Day Bus Pirate preorder 2 update
Seeed Studio just tweeted an update on Hack a Day’s second Bus Pirate preorder. Looks like they’ll ship in one week: After long time waiting,we got ICs from Digikey. Now Bus Pirat Preorder 2 just started manufacture,will be ship out within a week. Check out our Bus Pirate goodies when it arrives. Thanks Mike! Artwork […]
Bus Pirate: Firmware v2.1-RC1
Bus Pirate firmware v2.1 release candidate 1 can be downloaded from the Bus Pirate project page. Learn how to update your firmware from Windows or Linux/OSX. Updates Experimental hardware I2C library for PICs that support it. PIC chip revision detection. New public domain I2C library, fixes bugs with read ACK/NACKs. I2C no longer GPL. More […]
Bus Pirate forum
Get help with your Bus Pirate in our unofficial Bus Pirate forum. There’s ongoing development of a Python quick programmer for Linux. We’re also tracking Bus Pirate defects, and working on future hardware. Join the discussion.