I don't have a credit card, but I want to back this project.
If you are in Germany you can use http://www.mywirecard.com/ to get a pre-payed credit card. There might be similar services for other countries too. Please let us know, and we will add them here.
Last updated: November 29, 2016 16:01
I am in country X and I don't seem to be able to pledge.
This is our list of countries we currently have set as possible destinations: United States European Union Australia Brazil Canada Costa Rica El Salvador French Guiana Israel Japan Mexico New Zealand Singapore Switzerland Taiwan United Kingdom
If you are in one of those countries and still have trouble pledging refer to: https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backer+questions#faq_41759 https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backer+questions#faq_58471
We were instructed by Kickstarter that if you are in the above list and still have problems you should contact their support so they can try to resolve the issues you are having.
If your country is not on the list and you still would like to join the project send us a message and we will add your country if we can. Keep in mind that we will not be able to add some countries due to export control.
Last updated: December 02, 2016 00:35
How does the Black Magic Probe compare to the ST-Link programmer?
There are a few advantages of the Black Magic Probe. BMP is open-source, meaning that you can look inside it if you need or want to. We are getting support for new ARM Cortex-M based chips on a regular basis, so you are not limited to just the STM32. We have preliminary support for Cortex-A this will result in the ability to use the probe with Raspberry PI and Beagle Bone Black and many others. The Black Magic Probe also supports JTAG not only SWD, because not all microcontrollers use SWD. Also JTAG makes it possible to chain together more than one microcontroller. The GDB server is implemented on the probe itself, this means we do not use some proprietary protocol to talk to your debugger software, making the setup more repeatable and removing the need for custom config files. All you need to do is fire up GDB and connect to the virtual serial port of the Black Magic Probe, no special setup necessary. It is physically small, you can plug it into your hardware even if it is buried deeply inside your killer robot. We have equipped the Black Magic Probe V2.1 (this is the version the Kickstarter backers will receive) with dual supply level shifters that make it possible to connect to targets that run on voltages as low as 1.7V and as high as 5V. The transceivers are more robust than the STM32 GPIO meaning that if the BMP is connected wrongly to the target it is less likely you will hurt either the Black Magic Probe or your target. Also the Black Magic Probe comes with a TTL level UART providing a bonus USB to Serial capability that can be used simultaneously with the GDB JTAG/SWD debugger.
Last updated: December 13, 2016 18:36
I don’t have a credit card, but I want to back this project.
If you are in Germany you can use http://www.mywirecard.com/ to get a pre-payed credit card. There might be similar services for other countries too. Please let us know, and we will add them here. Last updated: Tue, Nov 29 2016 7:01 pm EST
I am in country X and I don’t seem to be able to pledge.
This is our list of countries we currently have set as possible destinations: United States European Union Australia Brazil Canada Costa Rica El Salvador French Guiana Israel Japan Mexico New Zealand Singapore Switzerland Taiwan United Kingdom If you are in one of those countries and still have trouble pledging refer to: https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backer+questions#faq_41759 https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backer+questions#faq_58471 We were instructed by Kickstarter that if you are in the above list and still have problems you should contact their support so they can try to resolve the issues you are having. If your country is not on the list and you still would like to join the project send us a message and we will add your country if we can. Keep in mind that we will not be able to add some countries due to export control. Last updated: Fri, Dec 2 2016 3:35 am EST
How does the Black Magic Probe compare to the ST-Link programmer?
There are a few advantages of the Black Magic Probe. BMP is open-source, meaning that you can look inside it if you need or want to. We are getting support for new ARM Cortex-M based chips on a regular basis, so you are not limited to just the STM32. We have preliminary support for Cortex-A this will result in the ability to use the probe with Raspberry PI and Beagle Bone Black and many others. The Black Magic Probe also supports JTAG not only SWD, because not all microcontrollers use SWD. Also JTAG makes it possible to chain together more than one microcontroller. The GDB server is implemented on the probe itself, this means we do not use some proprietary protocol to talk to your debugger software, making the setup more repeatable and removing the need for custom config files. All you need to do is fire up GDB and connect to the virtual serial port of the Black Magic Probe, no special setup necessary. It is physically small, you can plug it into your hardware even if it is buried deeply inside your killer robot. We have equipped the Black Magic Probe V2.1 (this is the version the Kickstarter backers will receive) with dual supply level shifters that make it possible to connect to targets that run on voltages as low as 1.7V and as high as 5V. The transceivers are more robust than the STM32 GPIO meaning that if the BMP is connected wrongly to the target it is less likely you will hurt either the Black Magic Probe or your target. Also the Black Magic Probe comes with a TTL level UART providing a bonus USB to Serial capability that can be used simultaneously with the GDB JTAG/SWD debugger. Last updated: Tue, Dec 13 2016 9:36 pm EST
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