The Analog Discovery review
Jack did a review of the Analog Discovery bench tool. This is a 5 MHz 2 channel scope, 5 MHz 2 channel waveform generator, and a 100MSPS 16 channel logic analyzer. This was also the top prize in this year’s … Read more
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Analog Discovery 2 channel scope, waveform generator, logic analyzer
Digilent’s Analog design kit is a 100 MSPS 2 channel scope, a 2 channel 100MSPS waveform generator, and a 16 channel logic analyzer built into one. The pricing ranges from $99 for US-students required to buy one for a class, … Read more
Adafruit launches Circuit Playground app
Adafruit has launched their Circuit Playground app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It provides a collection of reference formulas at the touch of a button, simplifiying calculations to make your project more fun. Decipher resistor & capacitor codes with … Read more
What gerber viewer do you use and why?
It’s always a good idea to review your PCB gerber files before committing them to the PCB fabrication house. We use ViewPlot to check our PCBs, what software to you use and what are the common errors you look for? … Read more
ArduinoDashboard app
ArduinoDashboard is an application for viewing analog and digital pin sensor values from an Arduino in real time. The app requires you to incorporate a function from ArduinoDashboard into your sketch and upload to the Arduino. You then run the … Read more
Serial port monitor software
The crew at Adafruit remind us of a handy serial port monitoring tool for Windows known as PortMon. PortMon is an old school Microsoft utility used for monitoring all serial and parallel activity on a system. While USB rules the … Read more
pyBusPirateLite support for Windows
There is a new version of pyBusPirateLite, the Python library for interacting with the Bus Pirate. It now supports Windows versions of Python. You can download the latest version from the Bus Pirate SVN Repository, or a package containing just … Read more
Virtual USB analyzer
The Virtual USB Analyzer is a well documented free and open source tool for visualizing logs of USB packets, from hardware or software USB sniffer tools. It provides a graphical visualization along with raw hex dumps and high-level protocol analysis. … Read more
Breaking SSL on embedded devices
Developers use embedded devices all the time, often without implementing security measures. When they do, they often rely on SSL. As revealed by the LittleBlackBox project there exists a collection of thousands of private SSL keys extracted from various embedded … Read more
Digikey: now there’s an app for that
Now there are Android and Iphone apps for Digikey! More than just a marketing tool, this app is useful for checking on what package types a component is manufactured in and includes an instant link to datasheets.
Bus Pirate and FlashRom saved my mainboard
MrHijet writes with a followup to our previous post, The Bus Pirate and Flashrom saved my mainboard: I already wrote something about the rescue of my computer in my blog, however it was written in german. I flashed my brand … Read more
Bus Pirate power tools
Are there any ‘power tools’ that would make the Bus Pirate more useful? We want to develop a collection of cross-platform command line utilities for common stuff. There’s already two apps. The first accesses the SPI sniffer from binary mode … Read more
Test script processor for the Bus Pirate
Here’s another use for the AT Command Script Processor we posted last week. We’ve been using to run test scripts on new Bus Pirate firmwares. Get a Bus Pirate v3b for $30, including worldwide shipping at Seeed Studio. Adafruit also … Read more
Bus Pirate SPI sniffer utility v0.2
A new version of the Bus Pirate SPI sniffer helper application and source is ready to download. This version adds clock edge and idle phase configuration settings. It also has new command line parsing. Download links and updated instructions are … Read more
Bus Pirate SPI sniffer utility v0.1
SPI sniffing with the Bus Pirate just got easier. SPIsniffer is a helper application (power tool?) that accesses the SPI sniffer using the fast binary mode. This is 3 to 4 times faster than displaying snooped output in the terminal … Read more
USB Infrared Toy: WinLIRC, irGraph
There’s a new IR Toy/WinLIRC tutorial that shows how to decode remote controls on your computer. WinLIRC doesn’t control things alone, but it works as a plugin with automation programs like EventGhost to control your computer using a remote control … Read more
AT command script processor for GSM modem debugging
Last week we wrote some software for a GSM (cellular) modem module. The GSM modem is controlled by AT commands, like an old landline modem. Debugging is usually done by typing AT commands into Hyperterminal or the Bus Pirate. We … Read more
Bus Pirate and FlashRom saved my mainboard
MrHijets’ BIOS update [machine translation] went sour, but he revived it with the Bus Pirate and FlashRom: In my case, Flashrom and the Bus Pirate saved my motherboard… FlashRom support is an example of how open source and community driven … Read more
Sigrok: Open source logic analyzer client
We previously posted the Sigrok open source logic analyzer client. They’ve done a lot of work and it now supports the Saleae Logic, EE Electronics XLA/ESLA100, and ASIX SIGMA. Open Logic Sniffer support is in progress, which will enable Bus … Read more
Sigrok: Open source logic analyzer client
Bert tipped us to the Sigrok open source logic analyzer client. Sigrok is a multi-platform client that aims to support most common logic analyzer hardware. It currently only supports the Saleae Logic, but Open Logic Sniffer support is in progress. … Read more
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