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Building gadgets, riding bikes, and fighting the good fight for municipal broadband. Some days you're a mountain goat; other days you're a fainting goat. 🐐

Jan 20, 2022, 5 tweets

USB 2.0 Type C Tetrabyte DIP Switch SSD. Maybe this was 0xabad1dea? 😀

Weak pull-ups on the @siliconlabs EFM8UB2 were sufficient so the pull-up resistors were not needed.

The iconic red body with white rocker DIP switch appears only to be made by @Grayhill_Inc. It's their Series 76 switch and a bit hard to find lately.

And credit again goes to @NanoRaptor for the inspiration!

I'll post the design files and software to Github tonight. There's a 2nd version without the resistor networks that's a little slimmer that'll go in here too. github.com/bikerglen/usb-…

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