Bus Pirate

Description:

The Bus Pirate, created by Ian Lesnet and featured on Hack a Day, is a device that is connected to a PC and has any other device, which include I2C, SPI, and asynchronous serials-all at voltages from 0- 5.5VDC. This product eliminates the loss of early prototyping.

Working with the Bus. The Pirate of the Bus. The Pirate will interpret your computer terminal. A big bonus is the bootloader installed on the PIC, which allows you to easily update the firmware and change the functionality of the board.

The main components of the Bus Pirate are PIC24FJ64 processor and an FT232RL USB-to-serial chip. A Mini-B USB connector is populated on the board, and it is a virtual COM port. The pinout of the 2x5 I / O header is documented here .

Note:

This product is a collaboration with Ian Lesnet. A part of the sales and further development.

Features:

• Supported protocols:
  • 1-Wire
  • I2C
  • SLEEPS
  • JTAG
  • Asynchronous serial
  • MIDI
  • PC keyboard
  • HD44780 LCD
  • 2- and 3-wire libraries with bitwise pin control
  • Scriptable binary bitbang, 1-Wire, I2C, SPI, and UART modes
• 0-5.5volt tolerant pins
• 0-6volt measurement probe
• 1Hz - 40MHz frequency measurement
• 1kHz - 4MHz pulse-width modulator, frequency generator
• On-board multi-voltage pull-up resistors
• On-board 3.3volt and 5volt power supply with software reset
• Macros for common operations
• Bus traffic sniffers (SPI, I2C)
• A bootloader for easy firmware updates
• Transparent USB-> serial mode
• 10Hz - 1MHz low-speed logic analyzer
• Scriptable from Perl, Python, etc.
• Translations (currently Spanish and Italian)
• Enumerates as a virtual COM port over USB
• Can operate as AVR STK v2 clone programmer
• Access to PIC24FJ64 ICSP programming port

Dimensions: 2.10 x 1.20 "(53 x 30mm)

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Documents:

• Bus Pirate Manual (LOTS of links, LOTS of information)
• schematic
• Eagle Files
• Datasheet (PIC24FJ64)
• Bus Pirate Forum
• FTDI USB Drivers