This project is a frontend program that allows better usage of the Bus Pirate electronics device.
Basically what it does is allow to more easily choose options and set modes, with a graphical user interface, but it also has some very interesting features.
This program's first version was created usig the Qt toolkit, which allowed very fast development.
The most interesting feature, beyond storing previous commands to facilitate the usage of repetitive protocols, is to allow the configuration of an interval timer that automatically repeats a command. This is extremely useful in sensor evaluation, where some data could change very subtly, which are hard to notice when one has to retype a command several times, and for each time eye-scan for a variable in a different position of the terminal.
As any good app, a screenshot is necessary:
This screenshot is in Brazillian Portuguese, but the program can be used both in pt-br or in English (automatically identified from the system's locale).
Don't forget to download it below.
Update:
24/04/2010: The 1.1 version of PirateShip was launched. This version includes a rudimentary plugin system, an option to invert the order of the cable colors (for those who prefer to invert the cable connection) and a Linux version! In the files section you can find the new version compiled both statically (no dependencies, but without plugins) and dynamically (there are dependencies, in a file that's also available and there's an included plugin for the HMC5843 magnetometer sensor). As the Linux version was dynamically compiled, there's also a file with the Qt 4.6.2 libraries (PirateShipe requires Qt > 4.6, which not all distros have).
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