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ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

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Re: ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

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ESP32 Bit Pirate is open-source firmware that turns your device into a multi-protocol development and analysis tool, inspired by the legendary Bus Pirate.

It supports sniffing, sending, scripting, and interacting with various digital protocols (I2C, UART, 1-Wire, SPI, etc.) via a serial terminal or web-based CLI. It also communicates with radio protocols like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Sub-GHz and RFID.

Turn a $5 ESP32-S3 into a browser-based hardware workbench.The Bit Pirate firmware is complemented by scripting, hardware dock, extension, adapters, browser tools, documentation and practical embedded workflows to enable comprehensive hardware debugging and development with serial interfaces or Wi-Fi connectivity.

https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate

Re: ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

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Fantastic project, love it! You have an amazing selection of supported protocols on the "wire side".

I'm the co-author and project lead of SSH-Stamp:

https://github.com/brainstorm/ssh-stamp

Our focus has been on the "network side" by running a SSH server instead of a Web Server and multiplexing protocols via SSH sessions.

Our project is admittedly not as mature as the ESP32 Bit Pirate but OTOH we run with Rust Embedded and support other targets than Espressif (currently experimental on RPI Pico2 and Sipeed BL616).

We need testers :D

Re: ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

#10
Looks like an extremely cool concept, but I'm wary about how many bugs I'd run into trying to use it if the code has had as little effort put into it as the website.

I think I'll keep just making up basic sketches when I need to work with one of these protocols - it's also nice that if I do that, when I see it work, I know I can expand functionality from there into what I need.

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