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ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol
- edoceo 7d agoBut can it print to tiny eInk?
- TechSquidTV 7d agoAlmost like the algorithm is listening. I have been getting into this as well. I had ChatGPT plan up a new UART adapter and similar.
- 043f14a097f5008 7d agoWhat the fuck is wrong with that website? It looks horrible. Why would anyone read that?
- fiatpandas 7d ago>Why would anyone read that? That’s the whole problem. No one read it before publishing.
- kotaKat 7d agoalso needs a "Show HN" tbh
- geotp 7d agoRead the github then https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate
- eggy 6d agoComing from a Commodore PET 2001 in 1977, I have to say I am biased towards the green phosphor colored text on black! Not speaking to flow, layout, or the filler text here...
- throwa356262 7d agoCan we get a normal landing page please? These AI generated pages make my eyes bleed. Anyway, I find the tiny C3 to be much more stable than other versions. It is a bit sad the very few projects support it.
- geotp 7d agothe project is open source, so feel free to fork it and give the landing page the improvements you think it needs
- braincode 7d agoFantastic project, love it! You have an amazing selection of supported protocols on the "wire side". I'm the co-author and project lead of SSH-Stamp: https://github.com/brainstorm/ssh-stamp https://github.com/brainstorm/ssh-stamp Our focus has been on the "network side" by running a SSH server instead of a Web Server and multiplexing protocols via SSH sessions. Our project is admittedly not as mature as the ESP32 Bit Pirate but OTOH we run with Rust Embedded and support other targets than Espressif (currently experimental on RPI Pico2 and Sipeed BL616). We need testers :D
- WD-42 7d agoCan anyone decipher the website and paste the ai;dr
- geotp 7d agoRead the github readme https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate
- MattJ100 7d agoI can lend a hand, after spending a painful 10s on the website (which really needs some thought put into it if this is a serious project). If you have any moderate experience with hardware hacking, you would be aware of a handy little hardware device called the Bus Pirate, which has been around in various forms for many years. It is designed to be like a Swiss army knife for connecting to devices and inspecting and debugging them. For example, it can decode/encode various common (and uncommon) digital protocols that are used by chips and hardware devices to communicate with each other. This project... it appears that someone has (with a significant amount of AI-assistance, if the website is anything to go by) produced firmware for ESP32 devices which aims to replicate the functionality of a Bus Pirate. This is notable because ESP32 boards are much cheaper and widely available. Without looking much into it though, my instinct tells me that it would be significantly more limited than the purpose-built Bus Pirate hardware.
- TomWhitwell 7d agoWhy does AI have to explain everything three times - a headline, a standfirst and some intro blurb all saying what could be said in two words.
- shrubby 7d agoOkay, this cannot be unseen!
- DANmode 7d agoIt built the site - you didn’t tell it to do anything but placeholders for the content.
- keysersoze33 7d agoRead the github readme instead - much more to the point: https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate
- mschuster91 7d agoStill heavily AI contaminated. The random bold formatting is as good a tell as it gets. It's high time that Github creates a disclosure flag for LLM usage - it's already mandated in the EU for some kinds of media.
- pockybum522 7d agoLooks like an extremely cool concept, but I'm wary about how many bugs I'd run into trying to use it if the code has had as little effort put into it as the website. I think I'll keep just making up basic sketches when I need to work with one of these protocols - it's also nice that if I do that, when I see it work, I know I can expand functionality from there into what I need.
- geotp 7d agothe firmware is in a very different state from the website. The codebase has a test suite, and hundreds of people are already using it, so it’s had a lot more work and real world testing
- voidUpdate 7d ago"every protocol"? that's pretty impressive. We should stock up on them in case aliens ever come to visit, so we can understand their communications protocol
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- _joel 7d agoThe author keeps saying read the README, they posted the website, so expect comments about the awful AI website.
- geotp 6d agoYou can’t submit the same link twice. I’d already shared the firmware repository before, so this time I posted the website, mainly for the new web tools https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409306
- fartfeatures 6d agoWas that hero unit header text supposed to be sung in the voice of Ja Rule?
- peter_d_sherman 6d agoLooks like a tremendously useful tool to do such things as BIOS reflashing (i.e., Coreboot, Libreboot, Canoeboot) on one's own hardware. In theory, any Single Board Computer (Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, FPGA-based-board, etc.) or microcontroller-based circuit board with GPIO pins that can handle the speed/frequency and the voltage of what's being communicated with, could work (if the appropriate software/protocols are implemented), but ESP32 microcontroller boards, being as cheap and ubiquitous as they are, are great candidates for this task. Anyway, ESP32 Bit Pirate looks very promising in this arena!
- geotp 10d agoESP32 Bit Pirate is open-source firmware that turns your device into a multi-protocol development and analysis tool, inspired by the legendary Bus Pirate. It supports sniffing, sending, scripting, and interacting with various digital protocols (I2C, UART, 1-Wire, SPI, etc.) via a serial terminal or web-based CLI. It also communicates with radio protocols like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Sub-GHz and RFID. Turn a $5 ESP32-S3 into a browser-based hardware workbench.The Bit Pirate firmware is complemented by scripting, hardware dock, extension, adapters, browser tools, documentation and practical embedded workflows to enable comprehensive hardware debugging and development with serial interfaces or Wi-Fi connectivity. https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate
- bambax 7d ago> Install ESP32 Bit Pirate firmware on supported ESP32-S3 boards Ok but is there a list of supported boards? Couldn't find it. Edit: I couldn't find the list on the site, but it's on Github.