Week in (p)review: February 17, 2012

  Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon: WORKSHOP VIDEO: How to mail free PCBs HOW-TO: Get your PCBs manufactured Giveaway: 4 LeoStick Arduino Leonardo compatible USB sticks Giveaway: LeoStick winners A culture of ethics in open source hardware? 3D Model: Bus Pirate 3.5c Superprobe […]

Week in (p)review: February 10, 2012

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon: WORKSHOP VIDEO: Video editing workstation build Part Ninja v1 in this week’s status update post Bus Pirate v4 and Bus Pirate PIC programming adapter are back in stock at Seeed Studio Bus Pirate Arduino Shield,  Bus Pirate v4 […]

Week in (p)review: February 3, 2012

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon: Workshop Video: Battle of the solder flux Bus Pirate HV programming adapter v4 in this week’s status update post 3D Model: Web Platform 1.1a Dangerous Prototypes best practices for PCB and schematic design DP Eagle part library cleanup […]

Week in (p)review: January 27, 2012

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon: Workshop video: USB Persistence of Vision Toy firmware Programmable dummy load in this week’s status update post Dangerous Prototypes 3D project models CPLD breakout board ported to KiCad Bus Pirate mentioned in Bruce Perens open hardware lecture C […]

Week in (p)review: January 20, 2012

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon: Workshop video: Bus Blaster v4 solder and assembly Workshop video: Bus Blaster JTAG debugger history Freestanding open source PIC USB stack demo Bus Pirate and PiratePICprog programms PIC32 Measuring hexacopter rotor speed with Logic Sniffer Cheap 2X16 red/black […]

Week in (p)review: January 13, 2012

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon: Workshop video: Bus Pirate and Bus Blaster Bus Pirate firmware v6.1 is now available for download Nook Tablet hardware protection hacked with the Bus Pirate Dsm posted updates on his “clamshell” yabp case design for the Bus Pirate […]

Week in (p)review: January 06, 2012

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon: Bus Pirate firmware v6.0 is now available for download Motherboard saved with the Bus Pirate and flashrom Boost converter shield for PIC programming with the Bus Pirate v4 Use Bus Pirate to upload Sketch to Arduino Ethernet CoolRunner-II […]

Week in (p)review: December 30, 2011

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon: USB Infrared Toy firmware v22 final released Bus Pirate v3.5 is back in stock at Seeed Studio Jawi uploaded a preview of the new signal display component for the Logic Sniffer application Logic Sniffer: Vote for signal display […]

Week in (p)review: December 23, 2011

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: USB Infrared Toy firmware v22 beta Video: An update from the workshop PIC24FJ64GB/A002 breakout board in this week’s status update post Bus Pirate week, day 5 – measure a capacitor and parts unboxing Bus Pirate v4 free PCB build RFID breakout board for the Bus […]

Week in (p)review: December 16, 2011

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: Bus Pirate week, day 1 – firmware development, day 2 – accessories and cables,  day 3 – cases and enclosures Bus Pirate firmware v6 test release a4 Bus Pirate servo driver documentation Application to Proto Labs for a Protomold Bus Pirate case We added documentation […]

Week in (p)review: December 09, 2011

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: This weekend was Make Tokyo Meeting 07, Akihibara Electric Town tour Bus Pirate PIC programmer through-hole version Rescuing an ArduinoBT board with the Bus Pirate Bus Pirate v3.5 and PICqueño32 DIP free PCB build Check out Josef’s homemade Bus Pirate and AVR-based PIC24F programmer, Kiran’s […]

Week in (p)review: November 25, 2011

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: XC95144XL breakout board was featured in this week’s status update post From the mail bag: Open source code inspires Bus Pirate v3.5, MCP2200 breakout board, ENC424J600 breakout board and Bus Pirate v3.5 free PCB build Logic Sniffer: Hacking cheap RFID readers Another Logic Sniffer ground mod […]

Week in (p)review: November 18, 2011

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: Bus Pirate demoboard v5a update changelog Bus Pirate PIC programmer can now program Bus Pirate v4 Basic RF sniffing with the Bus Pirate Soldering the Bus Pirate demo board v5 Vincent wrote a guide to compiling the open source cross platform GUI for the Bus […]

Week in (p)review: November 11, 2011

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: USB & serial LCD backpack was released Dangerous Prototypes on Google+ Dangerous Prototypes grunge logos TQFP 100 break out for Microchip devices Bus Pirate, PICqueño, Bus Pirate v3 and Superprobe free PCB build xQFP breakout boards are back in stock at Seeed Studio Check out Raj’s all through-hole development […]

Week in (p)review: November 04, 2011

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: Dangerous Prototypes source code visualization Open 7400 competition winners Home Camp: Dangerous Prototype’s presentations Bus Pirate v4  free PCB build Greeeg developed a micro board for the Bus Pirate v3 Jared wrote about his experience interfacing the Bus Pirate with an audio codec chip using […]

Week in (p)review: October 28, 2011

Facebook free PCB Friday is on the way. Don’t forget to share your current project in the comments or the forum. Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: 7400 competition: Entries and reader’s choice Home Camp 4: Open source green technology meetup FT2232 breakout, PICqueño DIP, xQFP breakout board and Bus Pirate LCD Adapter […]

Week in (p)review: October 21, 2011

Facebook free PCB Friday is on the way. Don’t forget to share your current project in the comments or the forum. Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: The Open 7400 Competition deadline (October 21, 6am GMT) has passed HamRadio2008 made a demonstration video of the Bus Pirate in I2C mode DIY […]

Week in (p)review: October 07, 2011

Facebook free PCB Friday is on the way. Don’t forget to share your current project in the comments or the forum. Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: There’s 3 weeks left to enter the Open 7400 Logic Competition 7400 competition entries: Money counter, Discrete logic POV clock, Discrete servo driver, and […]

Week in (p)review: September 30, 2011

Facebook free PCB Friday is on the way. Don’t forget to share your current project in the comments or the forum. Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: A DIY version of Bus Pirate 3.5-SOIC is now on sale in the free PCB drawer 7400 competition entries: Pure TTL clock,  Sychnometro Hz, […]