It's astonishing how much can be achieved with a tool like Bus Pirate.
Can you go into details? do you have any examples?
Bus Pirate 5 Firmware
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Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware
#12Horrible web site. Is it even affiliated with dangerousprototypes.com? No mention of bus pirate 5 there.
Looks like a ripoff with the "DANGER Prototyping In Progress" logo. A forum with only one poster, text that reads like it's AI-generated...
Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware
#13[tangental] two accounts created 3 days ago stating how wonderful the bus pirate is? Cmon, surely you know better than this. And the BP is a great tool, it doesn’t need painfully obvious astroturfing
Uh? Not sure if you meant me (I submitted this instance) but my account is slightly older. I feel like a low-key but established member of this here bunch o' geeks.
Probably talking about the two comments by amberburch399 and amrelisteelsco (green accounts).
Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware
#14Hopefully the firmware development won't stall like it was with v4.
Rp2040 is a decent choice for relatively slow speed digital bus multi-tool, but the USB1.1 speeds will be somewhat limiting (IIRC I achieved somewhere around 700-800KB/s of serial data throughput). PIO is also flexible enough for some almost standard-but-nonstandard digital buses (for example, I used it to interface with 12-bit SPI-like interface- not many MCUs support word-widths that are not multiple of 8 for their hardware SPI interfaces).
Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware
#15For those who are new to it, and somewhat confused: https://hardware.buspirate.com/introduction
I am still confused. What is a typical use case?
If you care for such things, you can use the Bus Pirate to see the speed of your code .. I have a macro I can wrap any function in, and by way of GPIO toggles, see on my bus pirate/logic analyzer, how many milliseconds/nanoseconds certain functions take to execute .. its also quite useful for getting a console - I have loaned my BP to a friend, who used it to reset his electric mopeds firmware ..
Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware
#16I'm an electronics hobbyist and was already roughly aware of the Bus Pirate, but this website does nothing to explain why I'd want to buy one. The website for the earlier version is much more useful: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate
Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware
#17Horrible web site. Is it even affiliated with dangerousprototypes.com? No mention of bus pirate 5 there.
I had the same reaction. There is a blog post that mentions iand from dangerous prototypes is involved. There are posts from Dangerous prototypes on Twitter discussing the board. It seems like a case of focusing on the hardware instead of the marketing.
Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware
#18I bought a bus pirate years back, at the time it was advertised as open source, i took that to mean cross platform, which it wasn't. it's windows only, the associated apps only run there. you can do a lot in a usb terminal, but i abandoned it. in short, don't buy it unless you run windoze.
Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware
#19I bought a bus pirate years back, at the time it was advertised as open source, i took that to mean cross platform, which it wasn't. it's windows only, the associated apps only run there. you can do a lot in a usb terminal, but i abandoned it. in short, don't buy it unless you run windoze.
Not sure what you are referring to, but the main buspirate interface was a serial console. It works just fine under the Linux OSX and windows.
Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware
#20I bought a bus pirate years back, at the time it was advertised as open source, i took that to mean cross platform, which it wasn't. it's windows only, the associated apps only run there. you can do a lot in a usb terminal, but i abandoned it. in short, don't buy it unless you run windoze.
I've used bus pirates years back and always under Linux or macOS. Not sure what you are referring to.