Great, now when does preorder 2 ship?

Posted at 9:17 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by Sam

For one, I see a distinct lack of mounting holes. Maybe they could leave that little edge strip with a mounting hole on?

And since 1000 where pre-ordered at the same time, a drop in price?

Posted at 9:30 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by cde

Is there a prize if that is mine?

Posted at 9:44 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by Nick

very nice ESD protection there – no wrist straps needed I suppose

Posted at 9:55 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by Kaya Ozalp

Love pile of Bus Pirate’s on the desk in the testing picture!

Posted at 10:16 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by Paul

got a shipping confirm this morning…
when will preorder 3 open?
i agree mount hole would be nice.

Posted at 10:17 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by arcnemisis

I don’t have much to offer… but if someone can prove that’s their Bus Pirate package, I’ll send a random PCB from my lab.

I have a feeling it’s actually mine, but I can ask Seeed to be sure.

Posted at 10:17 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by Ian Lesnet

great job ian & co. I’m looking forward to mine!

Posted at 10:18 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by clint

@ian You’d be able to get close since the tracking number isn’t obscured on that image.

Posted at 11:21 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by Eliot Phillips

07/16/2009 Shipped

Yea, getting mine soon. 7 days? then I’m back from vacation…

:D

Posted at 12:04 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by Code

What I would like to see is more articles on the pirate, I enjoyed those, I realise there is no incentive left for you to do that since we have already paid but if you decide to then that would be appreciated I think.

Posted at 12:08 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by tikka

XD
RAxxxxxxxxxHK is mine…
so mine is on that pile somewhere
not in the bag.
taking mine to har2009

Posted at 12:09 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by Code

@Kaya Ozalp
Actually you never see both of their wrists at any time, so they might be wearing them. Also you can be grounded with heal straps and ankle straps.

Posted at 12:39 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by drew g

Now how about some prebuilt cliplead cables?

Posted at 1:23 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by Brendan

@Kaya Ozalp
they maybe have antistatic floors?

Posted at 1:26 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by Zoltan

Looks great – can’t wait for mine :-)

Shouldn’t be too hard to mount – there’s enough space on the bottom of the borad for some double-sided foam tape to fix them down.

Some suggestions as to a good place to get the micro clips would be good. I understand why they aren’t packed in – too many people with their own needs. The small clips that fit smt parts are expensive, the normal .25″ compatible clips won’t suit everyone, etc.

It would have been good to have the option of a wiring loom – where we get a nice cabled tail, and could add our own clis at the end. Maybe the next round :-)

Posted at 1:46 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by slincolne

@slincolne

DigiKey has a set of 10 for a little over $25

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=461-1012-ND

Posted at 3:30 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by LordSpacehog

you should get some boards made in the US so we can populate them ourselves and won’t have to wait weeks.

Posted at 4:02 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by jake

Is there any chance you will open more pre-orders and manufacture more of these? I missed the previous announcements but I would still be interested on getting one!

Posted at 4:06 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by dre

Those look more like static dissipative bags than anti-static bags. See this for more info, discussion starts at 3:30

Posted at 4:10 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by eric

(not that I really care, this is all cool stuff! re: my above comment about anti-static bags)

Posted at 4:11 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by eric

@LordSpacehog
Do you happen to know the part number of the sockets that match those micro pincers?

Posted at 5:02 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by Dan

@dre we’ll consider more orders once the preorder 2 batch starts shipping.

Posted at 5:21 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by Eliot Phillips

Deal Extreme has the clips in 10 packs for under $3.00 USD

When will preorder 3 open?

Posted at 5:23 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by Charles

Burn!! Ain’t success a pain? ;^)

Awaiting arrival, thanks.

Posted at 6:30 pm on Jul 16th, 2009 by sean

when will 2 ship?

Posted at 1:41 am on Jul 17th, 2009 by BiOzZ

Shiver me timbers! Mine is on da way. Should have it tomorrow or Saturday, coming to Jakarta via DHL. I have a misbehaving MAX7219 SPI driver that wanna make love to Bus Pirate.

Posted at 1:43 am on Jul 17th, 2009 by Drone

Hi Ian, is there possible you will launch a third pre-orders of this great tool? I was not here for a long time, and I am really interested on getting one piece!

Thanks a lot!

Posted at 5:16 am on Jul 17th, 2009 by Faton

We have to finish the first two pre-orders before we can consider more. The second pre-order had such a long and loose lead time estimate because there’s nowhere to get 700 PIC24FJ64GA002-I/SO right now. It looks like Microchip is starting new production and more chips will be ready soon. We’ll have an update on pre-order 2 next week.

This is pure speculation, but there’s a revision 4 of the 24FJ64 coming that corrects the broken hardware I2C module, the switch to the updated chip might explain the current shortage. A Microchip engineer mentioned that he already had R4 silicon this spring. Again, pure speculation.

If pre-order 2 gets an R4 chip, then those lucky Bus Pirates can do some hardware I2C stuff that we couldn’t implement before because of the faulty I2C hardware in R3.

Posted at 6:24 am on Jul 17th, 2009 by Ian Lesnet

Call me selfish, but I hope they don’t get a better chip than us in the first wave :)

Posted at 10:08 am on Jul 17th, 2009 by tikka

@tikka
secretly I agree… Or a free upgrade kit…XD

Posted at 11:21 am on Jul 17th, 2009 by Code

Yo seria otro de los que se apuntaria a la Preorder III.
Esta no se me escapa.
Saludos.

Posted at 1:00 pm on Jul 17th, 2009 by CoR

@dan they are just the hooks, all you need to do is solder or crimp a wire to em from the ribbon cable and you are done.

Posted at 3:23 pm on Jul 17th, 2009 by LordSpacehog

again, all i want is a circuit board so i can build it myself…

Posted at 11:10 pm on Jul 17th, 2009 by jake

@jake – Contact me and I’ll send you a PCB.

Posted at 11:21 pm on Jul 17th, 2009 by Ian Lesnet

sent, thanks!

Posted at 9:30 am on Jul 18th, 2009 by jake

@Ian Lesnet

im willing to wait (im on preorder 2) for the new chip … i bought this for i2c stuff

can it do parallel?

Posted at 7:35 pm on Jul 19th, 2009 by BiOzZ

when will a new batch be built, I’ve been looking for a while and both preorder 1 and 2 are full

Posted at 11:49 am on Aug 4th, 2009 by tarik

I’m tempted to put mine up on ebay as I haven’t had/got the time to use it.

Posted at 12:20 pm on Aug 4th, 2009 by tikka

My pre-order 2 has been sitting on my desk for a while now, I’ve plugged it into a couple systems and failed to get anywhere with a serial console. The “mode” light was lit, though the documentation indicated that it should not be lit before selecting a mode in the firmware.

Today I finally wasted about two hours figuring it out. Apparently, it came without any firmware loaded, and I needed to “just know” to go upload firmware to my device. What exactly the “QA passed” sticker on the bottom means… I’m not sure.

Anyway, anyone else who got a preorder 2, you need to go to buspirate.com (Didn’t know that existed until now) and there is other info at dangerousprototypes.com.

-Jonathan

Posted at 12:17 pm on Oct 7th, 2009 by Jonathan