This is my first attempt at creating a custom enclosure for the Buss Pirate V3. I think these plexi-glass cases are pretty awesome. They take very little resources to make and can be pumped out pretty quickly. On the opposite side (see below) I etched a “cheat sheet” on the bottom for quick commands.

I could not find my spray paint last night (due to re-organizing my workshop.. I guess a little too well ) so I used a magic marker. This provided ok results for the prototype but if you zoom in perhaps you can see that the letters “bled” a bit. I will fix this on the next version. I like the size of this enclosure but I am thinking that the top might benefit from 1 more 1/8 layer or possibly a 1/16 layer to cover the USB connector. I will post this on Thingiverse in the next few days.

–Ril3y

Today I got home from my day job and found at small package with custom stamps all over it.  Needles to say this was the V3 Bus Pirate that I orded about 3 – 4 weeks ago.  After I took it out of the package I wanted to test it out a bit.  Kicked on the Macbook Air and hooked it up.  The quick and easy way to connect to the Bus Pirate V3 via OSX is just to do this:

screen /dev/tty.usbserial-A600aSlz  115200

After that you should see something like this: (If you don’t see anything just hit enter a few times)

Once there I typed in capitol M and it quickly displayed a listing of supported protocols seen here:

So just push something like 9 <enter> and it will change the mode of the bus pirate to PC KEYBOARD mode.  Very cool stuff.  Will blog more on it after my work on the contraptor.org project for the lightning talks @hacdc is over.

ril3y