Hard disagree what I find spammy in this community is all the Elon and Twitter garbage
Comment on No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard
solrize@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is spammy and there are already plenty of USB-C power conversion gadgets, e.g. on Adafruit. No crowdfunding needed.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
tenacious_mucus@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s not what this is…this isn’t a breakout board or a development board. This is just straight up, drop-in power supply for bare breadboards. If you dont know what breadboards are….well…
solrize@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I know perfectly well what breadboards are. I even remember the Continental Specialties brand. They have power supply strips, like the ones on the edges in this pic. You connect power there.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Tbf, these are slightly different things, the one in the OP hooks up to the standard power “rails” on a breadboard. You don’t need to buy a special one with markings specific to a pi or Arduino (or just learn the pin outs). OP’s also has the benefit of not taking up half a breadboard like your example.
Not saying more similar things don’t exist, but for the example you’ve given I think there’s significant enough differences for them to have distinct use cases.
Agree with what another comment said though in that it would be good to select for higher voltage than 5V.
bob_lemon@feddit.org 1 week ago
This device literally does exactly this, coming from a USB C connector.
solrize@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This just isn’t general interest technology news, especially since it’s for a vaporware (crowdfunding) product. Might be ok on /arduino or something.
Here’s USB PD to 12 volts (other voltages available too), just wire it to the breadboard:
www.adafruit.com/product/5450