1.5 c Microcontroller alert.

Very low-end, but 38kHz support is explicitly called out in its product manual. This means that this tiny uC is ideal for TV remote control (or other IR-blasters).

I wouldn’t recommend anyone use this chip unless you were some kind of professional saving pennies. Typical $1 uCs are far easier to work with and have exponentially more power (even $1 8-bit uCs). Still, its an interesting thought experiment for what a 1.5 cent uC could be used to implement…

  • hexadence@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    AVR is good. Though, I have the XGecu and Microchip IDE (The windows 98 looking one). It does a good job with PIC MCs. Surprised there isn’t a command compiler for Microchip ASM like CC. Someone would surely have made a linter and autocomplete for NVim as well. Anyway…

    Older chips are made obsolete because of higher power consumption paired with worse performance. I am surprised it is viable to make them at all, let alone at 1,5 cents per. Obviously a lot of manufacturers clinging to old familiar roads.

    Not long ago having own PCB design meant bank breaking, organ selling investment.

    I really appreciate that I have proof that I am not able to make anything useful to humanity, and money is not the cause. To mineself I can be true now… 😞