Mats continues his challenge of designing one PCB every week. In week 13 he came up with Sniff-A-Lot, a small addon board to the Bus Pirate: As PAW13 I did a small addon board to the Bus Pirate. Sniff-A-Lot combines both TX and RX of a serial port into one signal that can be monitored […]
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Bus Pirate in a necktie clip case
Oakkar7 made this cool Bus Pirate housing made from a necktie clip case: After getting BP, I try to make a case as usual. Mostly, I prefer acrylic style case like my OBLS and PICKit2. DP calls it “Sick of Begie” case. This time, I found out something which was suitable for the Bus Pirate […]
Bin access to I2C-memories in C
Thommy writes, “didn’t find any C program that compiled on Linux for using the binary mode in I2C (or my google karma sucked), so hacked together one. Maybe someone else can have use for it or its source code. Can be found under GitHub.com. Both read and write implemented.” Get an assembled Bus Pirate for […]
Bus Pirate to the rescue!
Bus Pirate to the rescue once again! Bertho writes: I’ve been working on a small flipdot controller which is supposed to talk serial, SPI and I2C all at the same time. Making serial to work is easy, but both SPI and I2C require properly formatted input streams to test with and are a bit more […]
Bus Pirate console
Here’s a Bus Pirate console by x893, that is available at github. Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
GPS module with the Bus Pirate
Crennsmind tweeted: With the help of a Bus Pirate and a PCI Express GPS module I saw on @hackaday, I finally have GPS Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
I2C with the Bus Pirate
Sailing the I2Cs with the Bus Pirate: The Bus Pirate came up as a topic on the mailing list a few days ago, and I realized I hadn’t yet shared the slides from my presentation (a year ago now!) on how to use the Bus Pirate to poke and prod I2C devices like sensors and […]
Bus Pirate v3.6 back in stock
Bus Pirate v3.6 universal serial interface is back in stock at Seeed Studio. This is the updated v3.6 in a standard PCB footprint. You can get a simple laser-cut acrylic protector for this board for only 3 bucks. Bus Pirate is a hacking multi-tool that has the capability to interface with most IC bus protocols […]
Asus Laptop saved with the Bus Pirate and flashrom
Ph1ph1l0u successfully recovered his Asus Laptop using the Bus Pirate and flashrom: You have no idea how I’m happy too ;-) yes biosflasher, it’s a very GREAT soft, very usefull and very efficient ^^, and also for Bus Pirate: a cheap device, but how is usefull and efficient, a real GREAT device. Thanks a lot all […]
Bus Pirate v4 back in stock
Bus Pirate v4 is back in stock at Seeed Studio. The Bus Pirate is an open source hacker multi-tool that talks to electronic stuff. It’s got a bunch of features an intrepid hacker might need to prototype their next project. v4 has some great new features, but if you want a tool that “just works” […]
Bus Pirate v3.6 added to the Fritzing library
Fritzing is an open source GUI based program that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, show them in a presentation, and create a pcb layout for professional manufacturing. Mikhail added the Bus Pirate v3.6 to their parts library, and Systemstech made a quick sketch of it connected to the DS1307 real […]
Sample boxes for Bus Pirate educational kit
Needed a box for the educational kit so Seeed’s sourcers went to Huaqiangbei market and returned with this collection a few hours later. Very cool.
WORKSHOP VIDEO #52: Bus Pirate educational kit, VFD tube module
This week some musing over a Bus Pirate educational/learning kit, and we received the PCBs for the VFD tube module of the Nixie Tube thing. ARDX is an extremely popular electronics learning kit based on the Arduino. It has an Arduino, breadboard, motors, servos, ICs, and jumper wires. Enough bits and pieces for 11 experiments […]
Simple shrink wrap Bus Pirate case
Voidptr used clear shrink wrap to encase his Bus Pirate v3 and cut holes for the IO headers. See our case video from a few months ago, and even more awesome DIY cases from Bus Pirate fans. Check out our Bus Pirate Sick of Beige case now selling at Seeed for $3. Get an assembled […]
Bus Pirate with a Nexus 7 tablet
Dolabra connected his Bus Pirate to the Nexus 7 tablet. All it takes is an OTG USB cable and a serial app to get your Bus Pirate going. I have been playing around with USB OTG on my new nexus 7 tablet. I wanted to see if I could talk to a bus pirate. It […]
Unbricking a laptop with the Bus Pirate
Nbssss successfully unbricked his ASUS G74SX laptop using the Bus Pirate. He used a Pomona 5250 SOIC clip to attach the Bus Pirate to the offending BIOS chip while it was still soldered to the board. For those attempting this in the future, what worked was to connect the four signal pins to their counterparts […]
3D Model: Bus Pirate and breadboard holder 2
Today’s model is the second iteration of the Bus Pirate and breadboard holder we designed for a kit we are prototyping. It this version the Bus Pirate is interfaced with a TO220-5 packaged IC. The holder board was designed in Sketchup and the design SVG files were sent for laser cutting. Free PCB to the […]
3D Model: Bus Pirate and breadboard holder
Today’s model is a Bus Pirate and breadboard holder we designed for a kit we are prototyping. The holder board was designed in Sketchup and the design SVG files were sent for laser cutting. Free PCB to the first one to guess what IC is in the breadboard. Check out our tutorial on how to […]
Bus Pirate v3.6 back in stock
Bus Pirate v3.6 universal serial interface is back in stock at Seeed Studio. This is the updated v3.6 in a standard PCB footprint. You can get a simple laser-cut acrylic protector for this board for only 3 bucks. Bus Pirate is a hacking multi-tool that has the capability to interface with most IC bus protocols […]
Bus Pirate on EEVblog
Dave over at EEVblog used the Bus Pirate in his demo. In the video he works on Mantis Elite 3D Stereoscopic microscope review from Vision engineering. See the Bus Pirate in the EEVblog after the break. Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.