[HN Gopher] ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 - A hardware hacking tool that ...
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       ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 - A hardware hacking tool that speaks every
       protocol
        
       ESP32 Bus Pirate is an open-source firmware that turns your device
       into a multi-protocol hacker's tool, inspired by the legendary Bus
       Pirate.  It supports sniffing, sending, scripting, and interacting
       with various digital protocols (I2C, UART, 1-Wire, SPI, etc.) via a
       serial terminal or web-based CLI.  Modes for:  - HiZ (default) -
       I2C (scan, glitch, slave mode, dump) - SPI (flash, sdcard, slave
       mode) - UART / Half-Duplex UART (bridge, read, write) - 1-WIRE
       (ibutton, temp sensor) - 2WIRE (smartcard) / 3WIRE (eeprom) - DIO
       (Digital I/O, read, pullup, set) - Infrared (device-b-gone, send
       and receive) - USB (HID, mouse, keyboard, gamepad, storage) -
       Bluetooth (BLE HID, scan, spoofing, sniffing) - Wi-Fi (scan, AP,
       connect, sniff, deauth) - JTAG (scan pinout, SWD) - LED control
       (animations, set LEDs) - I2S - CAN  https://github.com/geo-
       tp/ESP32-Bus-Pirate
        
       Author : geo-tp
       Score  : 89 points
       Date   : 2025-08-09 14:56 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | konraditurbe wrote:
       | bought a t embed cc1101 and stickc2 plus boards to try out your
       | project, arrives in a couple days!
        
         | geo-tp wrote:
         | That's nice, give me some feedback what you thought once you've
         | used it
        
       | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
       | Hm, maybe this will finally let me network my IR-controlled AC
       | units. There are a bunch of ESP/IR projects, but for some reason
       | I haven't gotten them to work (pretty sure it's a problem with my
       | hand-assembled hardware, in fairness)
        
         | roger_ wrote:
         | ESPHome is good for that.
        
         | nullc wrote:
         | It can be informative to drop an oscilloscope probe on the
         | transmitter.
         | 
         | I recently found a remote that doesn't to the 30kHz
         | modulation-- good luck to me controlling that with anything.
        
         | geo-tp wrote:
         | The firmware supports about 83 IR protocols, but even with
         | that, it's not mandatory that it works with all existing
         | devices.
        
           | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
           | If it can run at the right speed or frequency or whatever,
           | I'm perfectly happy for it to work purely by recording and
           | replaying signals that I give it with my remote.
        
             | geo-tp wrote:
             | https://github.com/probonopd/irdb
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             | See here for a very large database of IR signals that works
             | with the firmware.
        
         | lostlogin wrote:
         | What is it about AC that makes it impossible to control?
         | 
         | I live in New Zealand where we pretend that it's never
         | particularly cold or particularly hot. This might be a factor
         | in how sloppy all the installs seem to be.
        
           | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
           | > What is it about AC that makes it impossible to control?
           | 
           | Nothing; there is something about _my_ AC and the badly hand-
           | assembled ESP8266 and IR transmitter I made that doesn 't
           | work.
        
       | jnurmine wrote:
       | No I3C though :)
        
         | geo-tp wrote:
         | Fork it and implement it then
        
           | 4gotunameagain wrote:
           | Sass Pirate 0.5
        
             | geo-tp wrote:
             | It might have been poorly worded, English is not my native
             | language, but there was nothing mean in my message. To put
             | it more clearly, I meant: fork it and make a pull request
             | to help me implement it.
        
       | myself248 wrote:
       | Is it a derivative of the original Bus Pirate in some way, or
       | just reusing the name?
        
         | geo-tp wrote:
         | Both in a way. Bus Pirate, both the hardware and the software,
         | is completely open source. It's not the same version, things
         | are different, but it's largely inspired by it.
         | 
         | However, the entire implementation is new, it's not a copy
        
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