Comments for Brett's Build Log

Comment on Using the Bus Pirate v2go on Mac by Kunal

Kunal — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:44:53 +0000

It is working. Worked like a charm

Thanks.

Comment on Intelligent Control of Woot-Off Lights by Mike Norman

Mike Norman — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:37:49 +0000

Did you ever get the software side done? im hella interested in building one! keep me updated! and thanks for being awesome!

Comment on Using the Bus Pirate v2go on Mac by Ian

Ian — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:18:39 +0000

Hi Bret,

It looks like we found the issue with ZTerm and some later firmwares. Some people were having an issue with ZTerm because the default profile sent a modem initialization string (AT…something) that accidentally put the Bus Pirate in binary mode.

This is something to check if you’re using ZTerm and you can’t see anything in the terminal, your MODE LED will probably also be on when this happens.

Comment on Using the Bus Pirate v2go on Mac by brettinman

brettinman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:57:13 +0000

Thanks Ian, post updated. I still haven’t gotten around to updating my firmware so I hadn’t run into that yet.

Comment on Using the Bus Pirate v2go on Mac by Ian

Ian — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:17:17 +0000

The XON/XOFF setting isn’t required in recent firmwares (2.2+) and might be causing a problem with the latest (v2.5+) and ZTerm.

Comment on USB Power Shield v2.0 by Eric Betts

Eric Betts — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:55:06 +0000

I’m another of the unwashed masses interested in buying one of these already assembled when you get around to that. I’ll check back regularly to see if its been updated; but also feel free to email me directly.

Comment on USB Power Shield v2.0 by Amos

Amos — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:49:18 +0000

You still want to sell a board? I’d love to get one. I’m just got an arduino for the same woot light purpose.

Comment on Using the Bus Pirate v2go on Mac by brettinman

brettinman — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:25:06 +0000

Thanks for the info, David! Post has been updated to reflect this.

Comment on Using the Bus Pirate v2go on Mac by David Findlay

David Findlay — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:28:11 +0000

FWIW, with screen you can pass the baud rate as the second argument, so:

screen /dev/ttyWHATEVER 115200

This worked for me on my Mac with my Bus Pirate.

Comment on Using the Bus Pirate v2go on Mac by Bus Pirate: Connecting with MAC, OSX « Dangerous Prototypes

Bus Pirate: Connecting with MAC, OSX « Dangerous Prototypes — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:02:30 +0000

[...] Brettinman got a Bus Pirate from Hack a Day’s preorder, but he couldn’t get it working with the default MAC serial terminal. He used ZTerm and documented how to use the Bus Pirate with a MAC. [...]