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BusPirate v3 is a universal bus interface that talks to electronics from a PC serial terminal, eliminating a ton of early prototyping effort when working with new or unknown chips.
Seeed Studio is the official outlet of the Bus Pirate project, each purchase supports further open source development..
Note: this is a group pre-oder. Orders are scheduled to ship after chinese spring festival. All other products you purchase besides this product will be shipped when Bus Pirate is ready.
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Protocols:
1-Wire, I2C, SPI, JTAG, asynchronous serial (UART), MIDI, PC keyboard, HD44780 LCDs, and generic 2- and 3-wire libraries for custom protocols.
Features
- USB interface, USB powered
- 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 supplies with software reset
- Macros for common operations
- Bus traffic sniffers (SPI, I2C)
- A bootloader for easy USB firmware updates
- Transparent USB->serial bridge mode
- 10Hz-1MHz low-speed logic analyzer
- Custom support in AVRDUDE, Flashrom
- AVR STK500 v2 programmer clone
- Scriptable from Perl, Python, etc.
- Translations (currently Spanish and Italian)
Support
Bus Pirate manual
Chip demonstrations
Latest firmware
Bus Pirate forum
This open source hardware and software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. If you can't accept this risk, please do not buy this hardware.
You may also need:

Mini-USB cable 2 $

Bus pirate probe kit 4.9 $

Bus pirate v3 project case
This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 31 January, 2010.