Bus Pirate v3.5 Free PCB Build

A few months ago I won a free PCB from Dangerous Prototypes. I chose the Bus Pirate v3.5 SOIC because it seems a very interesting tool. According to DP,

The Bus Pirate is an open source hacker multi-tool that talks to electronic stuff. It’s got a bunch of features an intrepid hacker might need to prototype their next project.

It uses a PIC24FJ64GA002 and some of the features listed in their webpage are:

Support for many serial protocols with line levels of 0 – 5.5 volts:

• 1-Wire
• I²C
• SPI
• JTAG
• Asynchronous serial
• MIDI
• PC keyboard
• HD44780LCD
• 2- and 3-wire libraries with bitwise pin control
• Scriptable binary bitbang, 1-Wire, I2C, SPI, and UART modes

After a few months of lying in my bench, I finally decide to build it, so I bought the parts from Mouser Electronics and after a few weeks of waiting for the parts I finally assembled it. It was the first time I worked with 0603 components but it resulted to be pretty easy to solder. Also, I had some trouble soldering the FT232RL (I think I even burned it). Here are some pictures of the finished board.

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Thanks Dangerous Prototypes!

Algunas fotos del INTERCON 2011

Del 8 al 12 de Agosto pasado estuvimos representando a la Facultad Politécnica en el  “XVIII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ELECTRONIC, ELECTRICAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING” – INTERCON 2011, “V Concurso Peruano de Robótica – IEEE RAS”. Para el mismo presentamos 2 Robots en la categoría de Robots Sumo, Thor-GL y Loki-GL. Fue una experiencia muy interesante ya que conocimos gente de Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador y Brasil! Ojalá podamos repetir la experiencia el año próximo.

Aquí subo un collage de algunas fotos de la competencia y de los preparativos antes de la competencia.