Tool

Bus Pirate

Bus Pirate firmware turns v3 and v4 boards into terminal-controlled tools for investigating electronic buses. It provides SPI and I2C traffic sniffers, a low-speed logic analyzer and scriptable bitbang, 1-Wire, I2C, SPI and UART modes.

Targets: Protocol
Category: Protocol analysis tools
Relationship: Foundation tool
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 696
Last commit: 2026-10-26
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Bus Pirate v3.x or v4.x hardware.
Scope: Logic analyzer capture is specified at 10 Hz to 1 MHz.
License: Code from Dangerous Prototypes is released under CC0; some included files have other licenses.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{bus-pirate-v3-v4,
  title = {{Bus Pirate}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ElderlyPirate/Bus_Pirate}},
  url = {https://github.com/ElderlyPirate/Bus_Pirate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/bus-pirate-v3-v4/}}
}

Plain text

Bus Pirate. https://github.com/ElderlyPirate/Bus_Pirate (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/bus-pirate-v3-v4/

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Primary sources

README.md GitHub · ElderlyPirate/Bus_Pirate · Revision 44574ce
Documentation/bitbang.md GitHub · ElderlyPirate/Bus_Pirate · Revision 44574ce