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> I will simply link to the Nirvana fallacy and ask them to point me to a microcontroller that is more Free and Open Source. What? To me this reads like: "Here
by rootlocus 10y ago
> I will simply link to the Nirvana fallacy and ask them to point me to a microcontroller that is more Free and Open Source.
What? To me this reads like: "Here's a pink unicorn! If you argue it's a brown horse with a cardboard corn I dare you to show me a horse that is more unicorn!". Is it open source or not?
- 5ilv3r 10y agoThe core is. The product is not.
- georgemcbay 10y agoIt is an open system that includes a closed component (FTDI FT2232HL chip). Open Source (software) equivalent would be something like a Linux distribution that is generally fully open source but relies on a binary blob driver for the videocard... Is it still "open source"? Yes, mostly, but not 100% fully.
- 31h 10y agoThat's pretty cool if the only closed source part is a USB-UART IC. Not much secret sauce there; I bet if you wanted to be pure you could implement that function on a second FE310 with software bit-banging.
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- joezydeco 10y agoSo whack it off the board and add a MAX232 driver and a DB9 connector?
- baobrien 10y agoI think they're using the FT2232H for JTAG as well as serial, so you'd have to do a bit more than replacing the serial port.
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