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PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug

139 pointsby zachlattayesterday at 5:04 AM25 commentsview on HN

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d0abletoday at 6:56 AM

Very cool, but what about the $ to manufacture? Things get exponentially(?) harder the smaller it is, especially for custom boards.

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stephen_gtoday at 3:30 AM

Title is inaccurate, it's really designed to be about the size of a USB-C receptacle , the plug is the other side (in this case the part of the cable that plugs in to this board)

Lwrlesstoday at 5:40 AM

I recently got my hands on an M5Stack NanoC6 (https://docs.m5stack.com/en/core/M5NanoC6), it's also quite small and I'm pretty happy with it. It has onboard IR and a Grove connector, good enough for IoT projects at home.

ecesenatoday at 5:30 AM

I dream of an open board like the yubikey nano. This is very nice!

tl2dotoday at 1:01 AM

I'm interested in this too. I've been using STM32 NUCLEO boards, which are cheap and capable, but even the smallest ones are noticeably larger than this. I'd love to see an STM32 version of this project.

george_maxtoday at 1:06 AM

Very nice. I am wondering -- why have a devboard this small?

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chrisallicktoday at 12:30 AM

This looks awesome, I'd love to get one. Question, what's the advantage over something like the ESP32C3 and the like? Just even smaller?

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vdcjhhhcfddtoday at 4:02 AM

That's not a plug. To be precise, that's the opposite of a plug xD

polalaviktoday at 1:13 AM

Why not usb c male?

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motorduckytoday at 2:30 AM

That thing is sexxxy. Very nice board, beautiful documentation.