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Nice — RP2040 is cheap, capable (2 cores running at 120Mhz+, PIO, etc) and most importantly available. It can't be overstated just how the global chip shortage
by oxplot 5y ago
Nice — RP2040 is cheap, capable (2 cores running at 120Mhz+, PIO, etc) and most importantly available. It can't be overstated just how the global chip shortage affects even hobbyists or those making small runs of some breakout board.
My own product [1] has been out of stock for a long time now, because its main chip (AND the aux. one) has been unavailable for year and still has many weeks lead time.
Seeing this, I learnt that if it can be done in software, it should be. RP2040 is perfect for this and I've started writing a minimal USB-PD stack in Micropython to run on one of the cores and so far so good!
[1]: https://fpx.oxplot.com https://fpx.oxplot.com
- Teknoman117 5y agoI've spent a few hundred bucks over the last couple of month snapping up components I want for projects whenever I notice them in stock. FPGAs, gate drivers, etc. Anything and everything seems to be randomly affected. Been doing a lot of retro computing projects because the eBay parts are still there for the most part.