
QT Py with CH552 Ultra Low cost microcontroller?
We were looking at WCH @Patrick_RISCV for a USB to serial chip to replace the CP210x, when we remembered a lot of chatter a few years ago about the CH552 series of ultra-low-cost 8051 microcontrollers with native USB. you can kinda sorta code these with Arduino https://hackaday.io/project/172143-ch55xduino and we thought it could be an interesting QT Py since it has so few pins but does cover the basic use cases: 4 ADC, UART, SPI and maybe even I2C with a bitbang connection? Still, for very very basic USB projects maybe it would be useful, particularly since it has a ROM USB bootloader…
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