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Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware

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Post by grymoire1 »

c2xlZXB5Cg1 wrote: post #9

Horrible web site. Is it even affiliated with dangerousprototypes.com? No mention of bus pirate 5 there.

Ian has said the old 15-year-old site is so archaic he didn't want to work with it anymore. And buspirate.com is a better domain name. The web site has a lot of information on it. I spend an hour reading about the new development on Bus Pirate. For instance, the section on test probes was very interesting.

Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware

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Post by grymoire1 »

kramerger wrote: post #26

Bys pirate is aweaome, Ian is an allround great guy, and dirtypcbs is my goto source of borderline poisonous hardware. With that said, to best of my knowledge that is not their site and there is no bus pirate 5: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate

The Bus Pirate 5 (Preview version) is real and available for sale on the DirtyPCB's site - (same price as the V3) with the caveat that this is a beta and may not be the final version https://dirtypcbs.com/store/designer/details/ian/6621/bus-pi...

Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware

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Post by grymoire1 »

ekaryotic wrote: post #18

I 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.

You must be confused.

Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware

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Post by grymoire1 »

jauntywundrkind wrote: post #25

Glasgow revC is supposedly gearing up to ship soon. Seems like a slightly-more-featureful near-peer to this. https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/glasgow

The thing I love about the Bus Pirate is that you don't need to install any software to use it. Just connect to the serial port. The Glasgow is cool as hell but you have to use Python and to really master it you have to master Amaranth HDL to make use of the FPGA.

Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware

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Post by grymoire1 »

mqus wrote: post #11
amrelisteelsco wrote: post #3

It's astonishing how much can be achieved with a tool like Bus Pirate.

Can you go into details? do you have any examples?

Debugging, prototyping, hacking, and reverse engineering electronics. There are many other boards, such as the Tigard, Bruschetta Board, GreatFET, Glasgow, and many other boards. Most of them are FT2232H and FT232 based boards - which wrap the chip with level shifters, switches and interfaces.

Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware

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Post by Taniwha »

nezza-_- wrote: post #20
ekaryotic wrote: post #18

I 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.

yeah me too

Re: Bus Pirate 5 Firmware

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Post by bshacklett »

zwirbl wrote: post #29
bshacklett wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Piggybacking on that question, could I use this to interrogate a device over rs485 and reverse engineer the protocol it speaks? In particular, a pool heater and a variable speed pool pump

Yes, but you would still need to convert the differential signals to UART with appropriate voltage levels. A RS-485 to USB adapter might be the better option here. But a buspirate has way more usability than just UART, it's awesome for some quick i2C or SPI experimentation

Ah, so Bus Pirate wouldn't help me trigger or decode the messages? My biggest problem is that I don't have the automation system which is expected to talk to the devices, so I'm at a loss as to how I'd even get communication started for me to look at what's going over the wire.
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