Marcus Jenkins has written an article on Serial Protocol debugging with Ubuntu & Bus Pirate v4: You can see how the Bus Pirate can get you up and running with a new serially-connected peripheral pretty quickly. You can get started with configuring the peripheral in no time to suss out your initialisation and wiring. The next […]
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Live DVD includes Ubuntu + GNU Radio
Per our friends at RTL-SDR.com, there is now a live DVD downloadable which includes Ubuntu Linux 12.04 along with GNU Radio and other pre-installed SDR related programs. The necessary libraries for OsmoSDR, RTL-SDR and HackRF hardware are also included. The Live DVD is only available for 64-bit CPUs. Check out the release notes for more […]
Bus Pirate I2C mode demonstration
HamRadio2008 made a demonstration video of the Bus Pirate in I2C mode. He hooked up the Bus Pirate to a test board he built with various I2C devices on it. He then used the I2C mode 7bit address scan to find all the addresses of the on board devices. Get your own handy Bus Pirate […]
Bus Pirate UART mode demonstration
HamRadio2008 demonstrates the Bus Pirate in UART mode. He is using a PIC18F45K20 MCU to read temperature data from a I2C sensor and then sends it over the UART to the computer serial port, via the MAX232 RS232 level converter. The Bus Pirate is used to monitor the UART signal coming from the board to […]
Using the Bus Pirate with Ubuntu
Mike Szczys wrote a quick-start guide for connecting the Bus Pirate to Ubuntu Linux. He used the Minicom terminal and recommends some custom UDEV rules to assign a persistent port name. Thanks for the tips!