Paul Fertser writes: > Hey, > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:59:08AM -0800, mark_at_yahoo via sigrok-devel > wrote: > > Also that Digi-Key's price for just the MCU itself is US$5.53 in > > single unit quantities as compared to approx. $1.50 including the > > crystal, connectors, LEDs, passives, board, assembly, etc. for "Blue > > Pill"s direct from Chinese suppliers, or about 3x that with fast > > shipping from Amazon. > > Please beware of fakes[0]. This page has extensive description of > what's different about them, and has a special utility to test the > features in question.
There are fakes, where unknown chips are relabeled and there are clone with marking indication another manfucture, but not delivering a hidden surplus value that all STM32F103x8 had so long: Available upper flash from 64k to 128k. > > In any case F1 family is not too appealing these days, with all the > limitations, I2C bugs etc, ST has managed to produce much better (and > cheaper) devices since then AFAIK. > The STLINKV3-MODS is appealing: USB2-HS and much more resources and around ~10 Euro Bye -- Uwe Bonnes b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 1623569 ------- Fax. 06151 1623305 --------- _______________________________________________ sigrok-devel mailing list sigrok-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
