Re: Bus Pirate: bus hacking tool for hardware developers

2011-05-13 Thread Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 06:00:53PM +, Jona Joachim wrote:
> Hi,
> I just wanted to share this board that I discovered today:
> http://dangerousprototypes.com/bus-pirate-manual/
> 
> It's an uftdi(4) board that gives you access to the following bus
> protocols:
> 1-Wire, I2C, SPI, JTAG, RS-232, MIDI, ...
> http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Features_overview
> 
> I remember the photos of Theo soldering the I2C temperature chips to his
> RAM, so I thought some of you might find this interesting.
> 
> Note: I haven't tested it yet but I read some very good critics
> 
> Best regards,
> Jona
> 
> -- 
> Worse is better
> Richard P. Gabriel
> 

I got a buspirate last week and I hope to have a port ready next week with
some nice utils, like an SPI sniffer and stuff like that :)

-- 
Cheers,
Jasper

"Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them."



Re: Bus Pirate: bus hacking tool for hardware developers

2011-05-14 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:43:53AM +0200, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 06:00:53PM +, Jona Joachim wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I just wanted to share this board that I discovered today:
> > http://dangerousprototypes.com/bus-pirate-manual/
> > 
> > It's an uftdi(4) board that gives you access to the following bus
> > protocols:
> > 1-Wire, I2C, SPI, JTAG, RS-232, MIDI, ...
> > http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Features_overview
> > 
> > I remember the photos of Theo soldering the I2C temperature chips to his
> > RAM, so I thought some of you might find this interesting.
> > 
> > Note: I haven't tested it yet but I read some very good critics
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Jona
> > 
> > -- 
> > Worse is better
> > Richard P. Gabriel
> > 
> 
> I got a buspirate last week and I hope to have a port ready next week with
> some nice utils, like an SPI sniffer and stuff like that :)

Nice :) I bought one yesterday and am waiting for it.

Cheers,
Jona

-- 
Worse is better
Richard P. Gabriel



Re: Bus Pirate: bus hacking tool for hardware developers

2011-05-14 Thread Damien Miller
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Jona Joachim wrote:

> Hi,
> I just wanted to share this board that I discovered today:
> http://dangerousprototypes.com/bus-pirate-manual/
> 
> It's an uftdi(4) board that gives you access to the following bus
> protocols:
> 1-Wire, I2C, SPI, JTAG, RS-232, MIDI, ...
> http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Features_overview

I have had one of these for a while and used it to test an SPI D/A.

It works very nicely under OpenBSD.

-d