ruspirate

Buspirate Crate for Rust

Allows you to detect, open, and control a Bus Pirate from rust. Some utilities are included to read and write eeproms with it.

Prerequisites

I use nightly rust (rustc 1.25.0-nightly (e6072a7b3 2018-01-13)) for now and haven’t tested other versions.

Install and Build

$ git clone https://github.com/archaelus/ruspirate.git
$ cargo build

Utils

List Pirates

List attached bus pirates.

$ cargo run --bin list_pirates

rpir8

The swiss army knife of rust-controlled buspirate activity.

$ cargo run --bin rpir8
   Compiling ruspirate v0.1.0 (file:///....../rust/ruspirate)
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1.43 secs
     Running `target/debug/rpir8`
Rpir8 0.1.0
Geoff Cant <geoff+rust@archant.us>
Bus pirates things. With Rust!
USAGE:
    rpir8 <SUBCOMMAND>
FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information
SUBCOMMANDS:
    help    Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    list    List buspirates
    test    Test a buspirate

List attached bus pirates:

$ cargo run --bin=rpir8 list
(1) "/dev/cu.usbmodem00000001" (USB VID:PID=04D8:FB00 SER=00000001 LOCATION=20-1.3.4.1)

Test the default attached bus pirate:

$ cargo run --bin=rpir8 test
Testing Device { device: "/dev/cu.usbmodem00000001", hwid: "USB VID:PID=04D8:FB00 SER=00000001 LOCATION=20-1.3.4.1" }
Yay! Opened Some("/dev/cu.usbmodem00000001") as BusPirate { port: 3 }
Good pirate (vsn One)!

Grab the reset version information of the bus pirate:

$ cargo run --bin=rpir8 vsn -- -d /dev/cu.usbmodem
/dev/cu.usbmodem00000001:
Bus Pirate v4
Firmware v6.2-beta1 r1981 
DEVID:0x1019 REVID:0x0004 (24FJ256GB106 UNK)
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