I’m bit surprised to see a Bus Pirate comeback after all those years. I’m impressed by the attention to details (hydro-dipped connectors, custom plastic injection, etc.).
I’ve been really curious to try out a Glasgow but they’re definitely in a different price category ($37 vs $199). I’ve kept a BPv4 in my field toolbox for years. I think I did manage to smoke one and also lost one somewhere along the way. At the price point I’m not too upset if that happens. I’m also not so sure about what the UX is like comparatively; one of the things that’s awesome about the BP is that you basically only need a terminal emulator installed and you’re ready to roll for easy debugging activities. On Linux and OSX I pretty much always have minicom installed and on Windows it’s easy enough to get the 200kB or whatever it is Putty binary (if it’s not already installed) and have a serviceable serial terminal as well.
A silkscreen on the main IO header clearly marks the pinout for faster and easier connections. This tricky job was done by an Uncle who specializes in silkscreens on wireless ear pods.
Huh.
Bus Pirate 5 is sealed with a “genuine” quality assurance “Scratch and Sniff” sticker. Our custom scent was too thin to be encapsulated and printed, but the factory helped us thicken it with a common cosmetics material.
I love to see a new Bus Pirate version. I’ve occasionally used mine for more investigatory things, but I have either a v2 or v3 in my toolbox for flashing ECs and ROMs on old thinkpads.
It paid for itself (I think I spent $20 or so on it) on a single motherboard unbricking.
Yeah, I’m surprised about the new revision as well. I’ve also preordered a Glasgow, but I don’t know when it’ll arrive, and it seems much more involved to use. I think the Glasgow devs are doing their darndest to make the FGPA applets and such easy to package and deploy, but this is just “connect and run”.
I’m bit surprised to see a Bus Pirate comeback after all those years. I’m impressed by the attention to details (hydro-dipped connectors, custom plastic injection, etc.).
However I wonder how much traction it will get, Glasgow (https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow) looks much more capable (FPGA-based, USB 2.0 HS transfer speed).
I’ve been really curious to try out a Glasgow but they’re definitely in a different price category ($37 vs $199). I’ve kept a BPv4 in my field toolbox for years. I think I did manage to smoke one and also lost one somewhere along the way. At the price point I’m not too upset if that happens. I’m also not so sure about what the UX is like comparatively; one of the things that’s awesome about the BP is that you basically only need a terminal emulator installed and you’re ready to roll for easy debugging activities. On Linux and OSX I pretty much always have minicom installed and on Windows it’s easy enough to get the 200kB or whatever it is Putty binary (if it’s not already installed) and have a serviceable serial terminal as well.
Did the Glasgow ever ship? Can it actually be bought somewhere?
Huh.
Alright.
LOL I am definitely curious to see what it smells like!
I love to see a new Bus Pirate version. I’ve occasionally used mine for more investigatory things, but I have either a v2 or v3 in my toolbox for flashing ECs and ROMs on old thinkpads.
It paid for itself (I think I spent $20 or so on it) on a single motherboard unbricking.
Yeah, I’m surprised about the new revision as well. I’ve also preordered a Glasgow, but I don’t know when it’ll arrive, and it seems much more involved to use. I think the Glasgow devs are doing their darndest to make the FGPA applets and such easy to package and deploy, but this is just “connect and run”.
It sounds like whitequark is in a somewhat better situation now so hopefully she’ll have capacity to keep pushing it forward.