Monthly Archives: January 2023

32-bits at $0.10

In the previous year, I conducted research on 8051 processors and stumbled upon WCH during my investigation. I was impressed to find that they offer a wide range of interesting 8051 microcontrollers, which feature host and device USB support and are reasonably priced. Recently, the vendor announced the release of their value-line RISC-V microcontrollers, further […]

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Retooling for 2023

A new year has begun. After an extended hiatus in Japan to visit friends and family (pictured here), I am back in the saddle and plan to respin this blog a bit. In hindsight, there was a good mix of martial arts and general embedded topics instead of the original retrocomputing focus. The new-years resolution […]

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