by Sjaak | May 28, 2019 | Blog, china, decap, testing |
It has been a while before I posted something useful. On my search for obscure chips, I came around another interesting Chinese chip (which I don’t reveal yet). The chip was advertised as a cheap drop-in replacement for a American IC so I suspected it would be a...
by Sjaak | Sep 17, 2018 | arm-cortex, Blog, china, forsale |
Searching the prequisite Chinese websites to satisfy my shopping fetish I came across a neat litte ARM Cortex-M0 chip which is a extremely good bang for buck. It is the SWM050 made by Synwit, which, I believe, is the smallest chip available in a reasonable...
by Sjaak | May 1, 2017 | Blog, china, Prototyping, testing |
When I was in China last year I sourced a couple of small E-ink displays (GDEH0124S01) through Taobao. They were simple ones with 8 14 segment characters. After some searching on the Chinese website from the manufacturer I found the datasheet. It was by all means not...
by Sjaak | Feb 22, 2017 | Blog, china, manufacturing, PCB |
Recently I got a voucher to try Seeed PCB manufacturing, and decided to compare them to my regular PCB manufacturer DirtyPCBs.com. It is always nice to have an alternative to an existing supplier. At first glance they look very similar but some (small) differences...
by Sjaak | Jul 11, 2016 | Blog, china |
Been in Hong Kong and Shenzhen for 3 times already, but I always get excited to revisit the area again. This time a close friend of mine will come along and we are planning to some normal tourist stuff in Hong Kong, Macua, and mainland China. I will stay a bit longer...