Category Archives: Videos

Bus Pirate week, day 5 – measure a capacitor and parts unboxing

This week is dedicated to Bus Pirate development. Today we hacked the Bus Pirate to do crude capacitor measurement. You could use any microcontroller to do this, but one nice thing about the PIC24FJ is that it has a 32bit timer to measure large value capacitors. In the video: How to measure capacitors with the […]

Get your stuff made – Tokyo open hardware presentation

Here’s a video of our presentation about manufacturing open hardware at Make Tokyo Meeting. You can download the slides here. This is a highly condensed version of the same presentation we gave at the Open Hardware Summit and Homecamp. We cut it down so we could still fit in the allotted time if a Japanese […]

Bus Pirate week, day 3 – cases and enclosures

This week is dedicated to Bus Pirate development. Today we looked at Bus Pirate cases, past and future. Here’s some links mentioned in the video: Tons of awesome user submitted cases Synthetos acrylic Bus Pirate v3a case Correction: v3a case is only $14.99! Francisco’s latest milled case for v3.5 Tomorrow we’ll do our Bus Pirate […]

Bus Pirate week, day 2 – accessories and cables

This week is dedicated to Bus Pirate development. We’re cleaning up firmware v6 and getting ready for a final release. Today we looked at Bus Pirate accessories and cables. Here’s some links mentioned in the video: Bus Pirate demo boards Bus Pirate PIC programming adapter Bus Pirate LCD adapter Old Seeed probe cable with cheap […]

Bus Pirate development week – day 1

This week is dedicated to Bus Pirate development. We’re cleaning up firmware v6 and getting ready for a final release. Today we documented the development process to help any prospective developers find their way around the Bus Pirate source. In the video: Compile the Bus Pirate firmware Basic work with SVN Soldering a demo board […]