node-buspirate v0.0.1

#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.