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Bus Pirate 6 · Deep Dive · 12 volumes

Bus Pirate 6

The bench tool for talking to anything with a protocol header.

Embedded-protocol Swiss-army knife — UART, I²C, SPI, JTAG/SWD, 1-Wire, smart card, more.

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Volumes

  1. Vol 1 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 1 — Series Overview, the BP5/5XL/6 Lineup, and Where BP6 Wins What the platform is, the lineage from 2008, the BP6 distinguishing features, depth indices into Vols 2–12
  2. Vol 2 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 2 — Hardware: RP2350B, the Look-Behind Buffer, and the Per-Pin Level Translators Schematic-grade walk — MCU, 74LVC1T45 per-pin level shift, 74LVC8T245 logic-analyzer tap, PPSU, ADC mux, NAND, LCD, RGB indicators
  3. Vol 3 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 3 — Firmware Architecture: PIO State Machines, Mode Vtables, and the Build Tree How the source maps to silicon — pirate/ HAL, mode/ vtables, commands/, binmode/, the four CMake targets, the .pio programs
  4. Vol 4 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 4 — The Syntax Language and the VT100 / On-Screen UI Bracket transactions, repeat/delay/partial-byte operators, macros, on-board files, the live status bar
  5. Vol 5 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 5 — Power and Probing: PSU, Pull-ups, Voltage Measurement, Pin Discovery 0–5 V / 0–500 mA programmable supply, individually-toggleable pull-ups, per-pin ADC, the auxiliary pin AUX, frequency counter, PWM
  6. Vol 6 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 6 — Protocol Modes I — UART, HDUART, I²C, SPI The four daily-driver protocols: baud hunt, listen-mode HDUART, I²C scan + EEPROM workflows, SPI flash dump end-to-end
  7. Vol 7 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 7 — Protocol Modes II — JTAG/SWD (blueTag), 1-Wire, Smart Card, I²S, IR, LED JTAG/SWD pin-find via blueTag, 1-Wire iButton/DS18B20, SLE4442 + ISO 7816 SIMs, I²S audio, IR Toy compat, WS2812/SK6812
  8. Vol 8 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 8 — The Adapter Ecosystem (Probe Cable, WSON8/DIP8/SOP8, KF141, Aux, Planks) Engineer-grade detail on the cables and adapters tjscientist owns + the broader plank ecosystem (DDR5, SIM, PS/2, custom proto)
  9. Vol 9 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 9 — Workflows: SPI Flash Dump, EEPROM, JTAG Pin-Find, DDR5 SPD, Smart Card End-to-end recipes — clip-on vs desolder, dump and verify, the offline-DIMM SPD workflow, SLE4442 read/write with PSC
  10. Vol 10 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 10 — Binary Mode and Python Automation: BBIO Legacy and BPIO2 (FlatBuffers + COBS) Host-side scripting — when to use BBIO (flashrom/avrdude compat) vs BPIO2 (new work), Python bindings, automated test rigs
  11. Vol 11 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 11 — Building from Source, Custom Firmware, and Operational Hygiene Pico SDK + Docker build, custom modes, RP2350 errata E9 mitigation, debugger comparison (BMP/J-Link/picoprobe), bench discipline
  12. Vol 12 Bus Pirate 6 Volume 12 — Cheatsheet (the Laminate-Ready Field Card) One-pagers — syntax language, mode quick-ref, flash pinout, JTAG/SWD blueTag, smart-card commands, troubleshooting flowchart