MrZor decided to find some use for his Bus Pirate. After dissembling a LED POV fan he figured out that it uses a 24LC02B EEPROM chip to store the text displayed on the device. The 24LC02B is a I2C device so he used the I2C mode of the Bus Pirate to interface with it. After […]
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Bus Pirate Qt GUI
Vincent is coding a Bus Pirate GUI with Qt. Being cross platform it should run fine under Windows, Linux, and Mac. So far it is a modified console with firmware update support. A code repository is available. Via the forum. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
Bus Pirate: JTAG XSVF player successfully programs Amani64 CPLD
Cliff bought an Amani64 CPLD shield for the Arduino, he had no way to program it except: I did have a Bus Pirate on hand, the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of digital hobbyists. He successfully uploaded the LED blinking firmware onto the Amani64 with the Bus Pirate JTAG XSVF player. Now he is free to develop his CPLD skills. Get your […]
Milled Bus Pirate case update
fcobcn updated his Bus Pirate case with painted engravings. On the back he added different protocol pin connections as well as color coded cable pin-out. More awesome DIY cases. Via the forum. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
From the mail bag: Bus Pirate JTAG XSVFplayer success!
cliff52 had success programing an Altera 3064 CPLD using the Bus Pirate JTAG XSVFplayer: I wanted to post a success using the Bus Pirate XSVFplayer software to program the Altera 3064 CPLD on the Amani64 Arduino shield, at least as far the ‘blink an LED’ stage. My BP is v3 and I used the SVF […]
Bus Pirate v3.1 free PCB build
Kelvin built a free Bus Pirate v3.1 PCB. 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 own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our […]
Another Bus Pirate case
CapacitiveMind made a DIY Bus Pirate case: First Print is complete. A bit more post processing would make for a very nice case. I don’t have a Bus Pirate to show the fit of the board, but the case design prints very easily. More awesome DIY cases. Via the forum. Get your own handy Bus […]
Bus Pirate milled case update
fcobcn posted an update on WIP – Bus Pirate milled case: The graphics for both sides of the case are still not 100%, suggestions are more than welcome. I’m still looking how to fill the circles next to each pin name with a different color, a not water soluble material, and cheap! So any cable […]
Milled Bus Pirate case
fcobcn’s milled Bus Pirate case prototype is a work of art. The final touch are light-pipes for each LED. We’re going to get a quote on an injection-molded version from Protomold.com. More awesome DIY cases. Via the forum. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
New Bus Pirate probe cable
Seeed Studio has a new Bus Pirate probe cable in stock. It has female pins instead of clips, and the wire is thicker and higher-quality. We prefer the female pins for plugging into pin headers on dev-boards. To interface another female header, like the Arduino, just pop a male header in between. Best of all, […]
Bus Pirate DS1820 temperature sensor tutorial in Italian
Bernardo wrote a Bus Pirate DS1820 1-wire temperature senor demo in Italian. Via Twitter.
WIP – Bus Pirate milled case
fcobcn milled a Bus Pirate case: I have been working over the week on this project. It’s has taken a lot of time, mainly because I had to solve a lot of problems: How to mill plastic; spindle speed, feed speed and cutting tool. How to import the PCB design into a 3D CAD package […]
DIY rover hacking with the Bus Pirate
hak8or is building a rover and posted pictures of DIY Bus Pirate: Here is my bus pirate I am using for getting the contents of the EEPROM. I took the schematic from the original bus pirate, got rid of some stuff, changed some stuff, and made it a bit smaller. I should have used a […]
Small Bus Pirate clone
Greeeg made a small Bus Pirate clone: I’ve been quite happy with my sparkfun Bus Pirate. After seeing this project I decided I would attempt to redesign the bus pirate to be as small as possible, whilst still maintaining full functionality. My final design turned out to be about %50 smaller than the sparkfun version. […]
AVRDude + Bus Pirate 40x speed improvement
jyoung posted a new version of AVRDude and a Bus Pirate firmware that speeds AVR programming up to 40x: I’ve spent the past few days implementing some changes to the Bus Pirate firmware and also to avrdude to increase the verify speed performance. Since I don’t have an ATmega2560, I’m unable to write suitable code […]
Bus Pirate free PCB build
fcobcn built a free Bus Pirate PCB. 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 own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly […]
Bus Pirate in a Microchip sample box
Florin posted pictures of his Bus Pirate housing made from a Microchip sample box. Microchip samples. What a blast from the past. Though we hear they might be sampling to .edu emails if you promise not to resell your samples on eBay. Here’s some other user-submitted cases. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, […]
Week in (p)review: July 15, 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: USB Infrared Toy v2 and Web Platform v1.1 are back in stock at Seeed Studio Bus Pirate introduction tutorial is now available in Spanish […]
Week in (p)review: July 08, 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: Thermal Tweeter Fail Whale Bus Pirate Zeno zit zapper hack update Bus Pirate and CPLD breakout free PCB build Check out Frank’s RC Quadrotor […]
Bus Pirate free PCB build
Kenneth built a free Bus Pirate PCB. 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 own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly […]