node-buspirate

0.0.1 • Public • Published

node-buspirate

In the works: Bus pirate bindings for Node.js, letting you control a Bus Pirate from any Node.js script.

The code is fairly untested, and may break your kit. However, these modes have been mostly implemented, and partially tested:

  • UART (Read/Write/Bridge)
  • SPI (Sniff/Write-read)

Install

node-buspirate is in the npm registry!

npm install node-buspirate

Or you could always clone / fork this repo:

git clone https://github.com/rmhsilva/node-buspirate.git
cd node-buspirate && npm install

Usage

Check the examples folder for examples of how it can be used.

Basic idea:

#!/usr/bin/env node
 
var BusPirate = require('./node-buspirate');
var pirate = new BusPirate('/dev/bus_pirate');
 
pirate.on('connected', function() {
    pirate.uart.start({
        baudrate: 115200,
        stop_bits: 1,
        data_bits: 8  // ... and other options
    });
});
 
pirate.uart.on('ready', function() {
    pirate.config_periph(true,true,true,true);
    pirate.uart.echo_rx(true);
 
    setInterval(function() {
        pirate.uart.write('ping UART\r\n');
    }, 3000);
});
 
pirate.uart.on('data', function(data) {
    process.stdout.write(data);
});

The plan is to add other Bus Pirate modes (I2C...) which will be used similarly.

How

The BusPirate object is an eventEmitter built on top of a node Serialport. It gets the hardware into raw bitbang mode, then just sends and receives raw data from the hardware, and lets other modules handle the specifics of each mode.

todo

  • Write modules to handle other BusPirate modes.
  • Documentation
  • And much more...

Although Javascript is probably not often used for hardware debugging, this project has been an interesting experiment which has proved to be useful. It was started because I don't like Python and the Ruby bus pirate bindings weren't working.

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npm i node-buspirate

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  • rmhsilva