Bus Pirate v5 with enclosure REV10

Bus Pirate 5 REV10 is the fifth generation of the popular open-source hardware debugging tool and serves as a versatile instrument for troubleshooting and electronics development. It is particularly useful for engineers, hackers, and makers. Developed by Dangerous Prototypes, Bus Pirate 5 is a universal debugging tool designed for analyzing and troubleshooting microcontrollers, sensors, and other integrated circuits. Its primary function is decoding and debugging serial protocols and other low-level communications.

Functionality:

• Supports UART, I²C, SPI, 1‑Wire, MIDI, and manual bit-banging
• Support for reading and writing to Flash memory, 24x/25x/93x/95x EEPROMs, DDR5 SPD smart cards, and FRAM memory.
• Configurable I/O voltage from 1.65V to 5V
• Command-line terminal via USB serial connection with help functions, data logging, and scriptable interaction
• Powered and programmed via USB; appears as a standard COM port on Windows, macOS, and Linux

Typical use cases:

• Troubleshooting and monitoring serial data buses in embedded systems
• Reverse engineering of protocols and communication analysis
• Firmware development and low-level hardware testing
• As an educational tool for learning digital protocols and electronics

Based on Paspberry Pi RP2040:

• 128Mbit flash storage for lots of features
• Firmware developed with the Pico C language SDK, available for download

Logic analyzer:

• 62.5MSPS (or more if overclocked)
• 131K samples
• 8 channels
• Trigger: single pin, high or low

Programmable Power Supply Unit:

• Current Sense
• Programmable 1 - 5.0 V output
• Programmable 0 - 500 mA current limit
• Resettable digital fuse
• Protection circuit

Basic oscilloscope mode

• One channel
• 12 bit resolution
• For low frequencies, approx. up to 0.5MHz
• Limited by small display
• Suitable for basic fault-finding and field usage, but won't replace a proper oscilloscope

8 Buffered IO pins:

• 1.65 - 5V operating range
• Tri-state pins (low / high logic level or high impedance)
• Voltage measurement on every pin
• Toggleable 10K pull-up resistors
• 10 pin x 2.54mm main header
• Pins are labelled

1Gbit NAND flash storage (100MB available to user):

• Save global and mode settings
• Appears as a USB disk drive
• Future use for logs, dumps and stand-alone programming

Display:

• 320 x 240 pixel IPS all direction display
• Live voltage measurements
• Live current consumption

USB bootloader:

• Updating is as simple as dragging a file onto the disk