Today we cleaned up the workshop for tomorrow’s video, we checked some bug fixes on the Bus Pirate firmware (look for a new release soon), and started a Mouser order to be placed tomorrow. We also went over our partlist, and started gathering information on how much a basic kit of our most commonly used […]
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Fixing the EDID ROM of a monitor using the Bus Pirate
Matthias fixed the EDID ROM of his Samsung monitor using the Bus Pirate. He documented the whole process on his blog. Also included is a tip on how to connect the Bus Pirate to I2C line through the VGA, or DVI cable. This post is about fixing a broken EDID ROM in a monitor. There […]
Unbricking a MacBook with the Bus Pirate
Unbricking a Mac Book with the Bus Pirate. He documented the entire process on his blog, with step by step instructions. In my tinkering with EFI I attempted to flash some backdoored firmware to a test MacBook that was kindly donated to science by a friend of mine. This resulted in the bastard doing the […]
Another aluminum CNC milled Bus Pirate case
A few days ago we wrote about Mmattice’s milled aluminum case, here’s another design, a CNC milled case from Epninety. Drawn in CamBam, and cut on a CNC converted Taig micromill with Mach3. I didn’t have any engraving tools, so abused a cheap 45degree spot drill instead. No screws holding the case together, there is […]
Workshop Update for June 20th, 2012
Finnair gave us almost-free tickets to Chongqing, China. We still had an entry left on our China visas so we hopped on a plane and spent the weekend. The pic above is of a LED shop, every big city in Asia seems to have a few. The pic below the fold is of a sign […]
Bus Pirate in a transformer case
BADnetwork made a Bus Pirate case out of an unrepairable transformer. We really like how he soldered a button to the PGC and PGD ICSP pins to enter the bootloader for updates. I bought one of these on eBay, It turned out faulty, so stripped it down, turned out it was unrepairable. Looked at the […]
Milled aluminum Bus Pirate case
Mmattice shared pictures of his milled aluminum Bus Pirate case. The Bus Pirate is a hacking multi-tool that can talk to many common electronic chips. I make use of my BP at both home and work, and wanted something to encase it in. I started with a printed case I found on thingiverse, but that […]
Laser cut acrylic Bus Pirate case
Here’s another cool laser cut acrylic case for the Bus Pirate. There are many custom enclosures for Bus Pirate, must be a very popular product (we at LAWICEL AB knows this of course). We sell the Sparkfun version (TOL-09544). The original version was made by Ian Lesnet of Dangerous Prototypes. After looking arround on enclosures […]
Workshop Update for June 8th, 2012
Today we investigated bug reports in the PC Keyboard, SPI, and logic analyzer mode of the Bus Pirate. We also continued to work on the new sales pages for our projects. The first batch of Bus Pirate v3.6 with a new form factor is now on sale at Seeed. Darlington transistors are added to the […]
Workshop Update for June 6th, 2012
We worked on the updated sales page for the Bus Pirate. You can preview our “work in progress” in the pic above, and notice a slight update to the site-wide banner. The final render of the 3D model for the sales page is currently in progress. We decided make two versions of the LED Dangerous […]
Bus Pirate v3b free PCB build
NBitWonder built a free Bus Pirate v3b PCB. The Bus Pirate is an open source hacker multi-tool that talks to electronic stuff. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. Get your […]
Workshop Update for 5th of June, 2012
Desktop cleanup yielded a few random project files that we added to the SVN. We’re preparing 2 different sales pages for the Bus Pirate. We’ll post both for feedback, and then randomly display them to determine if one is more effective. Any statistics will be posted on the blog. The DIY DP Badge is nearing […]
DIY Bus Pirate v3.5a built
Asarli shared his Bus Pirate v3.5a SOIC PCB build. These boards were designed with the larger SOIC PIC microcontrollers, making them easier to solder for beginners. Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors. Via the forum.
Workshop Update for June 4th, 2012
We commited a patch to the SPIsniffer utility for the Bus Pirate that fixes an error with correct port speed settings on some systems. We also started work on some landing, and sales pages for the Bus Pirate. A bunch of LEDs were added to the Dangerous Prototypes solder practice badge. Part Ninja Processing app […]
Another update on the hybrid race car
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute hybrid race car made it into competition, check out some videos of the car running below. All last week was the competition. This is the first year RPI made it through all of the inspections and was able to compete. Next year is going to be even greater! Overall it consisted […]
Workshop update May 10th, 2012
Work on the POV Toy continues, and it’s the subject of the workshop video this week. We might as well give up guessing the subject of the next video, it’s whatever is on the bench Thursdays. The firmware is being tweaked and calibrated, and finalized for production. We’re thinking about adding mounting holes to the […]
Laser cut acrylic case for Bus Pirate v4
Here’s another cool laser cut acrylic case for the Bus Pirate. It’s made out of 4 layers of 2mm transparent acrylic. The inner two layers simultaneously act as standoffs and as an edge to the enclosure. The SVG source files are available if anyone wants to laser cut his design. I designed a laser cut […]
HOW-TO: Bus Pirate PIC 24 analog to digital converter tutorial
The Bus Pirate is a handy debugging tool, but it’s also a 16 bit PIC 24FJ64GA002 development board. You don’t need a programmer to play, just upload the firmware over USB using the Bus Pirate’s nearly-impossible-to-brick bootloader. It’s easy to go back to the original Bus Pirate firmware at any time. This demo is step […]
Hybrid race car build update
Some time ago we wrote about the Bus Pirate being used to debug the electronics on a Hybrid race car. Here is an update on the race car development: Last Saturday we tested the car at Pitney Bowes in the Rensselaer Tech Park. There were a few hiccups in the car – our starter battery […]
Read a GPS module with the Bus Pirate
You can use your Bus Pirate to read a Fastrax UPS501 GPS module. Since the module has a UART, just connect the RX and TX pins, and set the Bus Pirate for UART mode. The correct settings are UART, 9600 baud, 8bits, no parity, one stop bit, receive polarity 1, and a normal output type. […]