Yet another Bus Pirate free PCB build

Jason Mann built a free Bus Pirate v3.8 PCB.   The Bus Pirate is an open source hacker multi-tool that talks to electronic stuff. I received my free PCBs from #dangerousprototypes at the end of last month. I quickly put them together, but I ran into problems programming the bootloader and firmware. I finally managed to […]

Bus Pirate LCD Adapter free PCB build

Marv shared his free Bus Pirate LCD Adapter v2b build. This board lets your Bus Pirate drive HF44780 comparable LCDs. 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. Grab an assembled […]

Soldering Iron Driver v1.5 assembled and enclosed

Pjkim assembled his Soldering Iron Driver v1.5 free PCB and enclosed it into some Tupperware. He had some problems with the firmware, but he eventually got it to work as intended. The LCD works, the iron gets hot and I can solder stuff with it! What do you call the first functioning of a soldering […]

Lattice CPLD development board free PCB built

Colfaxmingo built a free Lattice CPLD development board PCB. CPLDs are programmable logic gate arrays which allow you to build custom logic devices by programing them. 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 […]

MCP2200 breakout board free PCB built

Bennyboy built a free MCP2200 breakout board.  MCP2200 is a USB-to-serial converter chips from Microchip. In fact they are PIC18F14K50 microcontrollers programmed with USB-to-UART firmware.  We were able to hack one and program an open source USB stack into it. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post […]