Bus Pirate Preorder 2 Update

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A few weeks ago we held a preorder for the Bus Pirate universal serial interface tool. We split the preorder into two parts due to a shortage of PIC 24FJ64GA002-I/SO chips. The first preorder is arriving worldwide now, the second preorder has a longer lead time. Here’s everything we currently know about preorder 2, it’s subject to change, but we wanted to keep you up to date.

Preorder 2 contains orders for 563 Bus Pirates. Seeed Studio noticed an error in our quality control testing routine that misclassified about 50 preorder 1 Bus Pirates as defective. We updated the test and passing units will ship immediately to preorder 2 participants on a first come, first serve basis. Another 500 PICs are scheduled to arrive after August 1, which should take care of most remaining orders.

A special thanks to the fantastic engineers at Microchip who took the time to peruse the Bus Pirate code, and immediately gave the correct solution to our quality control problem. Great job Microchip, thank you!

We released an updated version of the Bus Pirate firmware package. The firmware is exactly the same, we just changed a speed setting in the P24qp.exe quick programmer utility for MS Windows. During development we increased the baud rate of the quick programmer to make development faster, and we forgot to change it back to a safe speed for normal use.

60 thoughts on “Bus Pirate Preorder 2 Update

  1. I feel like this is a dumb question, but that hasn’t stopped me before!

    Does anyone know if that nice, colorful cable with the microclips comes with the bus pirate? Or is that ordered separately? If so, does anyone have a link?

  2. am i the only person that can’t communicate with their pirate? is there a forum or something where i can get help with the terminal communication? it seems i can’t type anything in the terminal at all, and i never get a response, just a blinking cursor

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