Kartik soldered the first prototype of his PSoC3 development board. He used a no-solder soldering technique to solder the SSOP IC. He had great success with this technique, after destroying a few PCBs with his old method. Things didnt go that well on the first board I tried out,mainly due to me using the wrong […]
Tag Archives: Development
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 […]
Propeller Development Stick
Here is a USB development board for the P8X32A-Q44 Propeller microcontroller. It has a FT232RL USB-to-UART IC, a 3.3 LDO voltage regulator, a 5MHZ crystal, and a 64KB EEPROM. He broke-out 32 IO pins of the microcontroller to two 16pin female headers. This is version 1.1 of this design, and version 2 is currently under […]
Cool new Bus Pirate features in development
Sjaak demonstrated a basic scripting language that could be integrated into the Bus Pirate terminal. Take a look and tell us what you think.
Logic analyzer firmware development update
Today we completed an initial PIC firmware for the open source logic analyzer. The PIC has two operating modes: a serial bridge for SUMP to talk to the client on the FPGA, and a ROM programmer that updates the AT45DB041D flash chip with new logic for the FPGA. There’s still some bugs, but the design […]
Bus Pirate firmware v3 feature requests
Bus Pirate firmware v3 will be released in the near future. Are there any minor tweaks or moderate feature additions that you’d like to see in V3? It’s probably too late for major additions like a new protocol, but we’d like to know if there’s any popular updates we can schedule for the big v3 […]
Compile the Bus Pirate firmware
This is an old version, see the latest version on the documentation wiki. You don’t need a Microchip programmer to develop firmware for the Bus Pirate. You can use Microchip’s free development tools and upload code through the USB bootloader. It’s a mini PIC 24F development board! First, download and install Microchip’s IDE called MPLAB, […]
Confessions of a prototyper: Server v2
The original web server on a business card Ian posted at Hack a Day was a homemade single-sided PCB with a few jumper wires. A version 2 was designed on a professional PCB, which opened up a lot of possibilities for new features. We added a 128×128 color Nokia knock-off LCD to make a network-connected […]
Bus Pirate: v3 update
***We’ll start a preorder ($30 assembled, shipped worldwide) if there are a few firm commitments, sign up for notification in the forum.*** This rendering shows the nearly-complete Bus Pirate v3 PCB. Our initial preview of the new hardware generated some really good comments. We decided to swap the PGC and PGD pins of the ICSP […]
Confessions of a prototyper: Bus Pirate v1.5
The Bus Pirate V2a and V2go weren’t the only design candidates for the Bus Pirate v2 series. Here’s a rendering of the Bus Pirate ‘v1.5’, a design that never saw the light of day. This Bus Pirate was meant to be completely portable. It has an LCD to display the terminal, and a keyboard jack […]
Bus Pirate v3: Beating the shortage
UPDATE II: PCB stuffed and tested. UPDATE I:***We’ll start a preorder ($30 assembled, shipped worldwide) if there are a few firm commitments, sign to be notified and check the forum.*** The next version of the Bus Pirate universal serial interface is about a week away from prototyping. Why a new version so soon, when Hack […]