#USB PD

[futureelectronic1527]

CUI: Power 101 USB Power Delivery

https://www.futureelectronics.com/resources/featured-products/cui-inc-external-ac-dc-power-supplies . In this Power 101 video from CUI, we explain how USB Power Delivery (USB PD) works and its benefits and uses in relation to power adapters. https://youtu.be/PEm-UWIFqNg

[futureelectronic1114]

A Short Demonstration on How The USB-C Products From STMicroelectronics Work

https://www.futureelectronics.com/m/stmicroelectronics. STMicroelectronics provides a complete solution for USB Type-C Power Delivery (USB-C PD) allowing customers to design applications requiring up to 100 W of power (20V-5A). https://youtu.be/eHA4fDRZIoM

[shopnglows]

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[pichondria]

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[choetech-official]

Travel with confidence and keep all your devices charged with Choetech’s Travel Wall Charger. Powered by GaN and equipped with one USB-A port, a USB-C PD port that delivers up to 65W to charge your laptop and a USB-C port for other USB-C enabled devices. This compact, versatile all-in-one adapter is compatible with UK, EU, US and AU sockets, so it works in over 200+ countries making it the perfect travel companion that will keep all your devices charged while you’re abroad.

[foone]

AAA games? Pfft. Indie games? Double pfft.

I only play games from the alternate history where Hillary Clinton was elected in 2008 and banned all video games. You can only imagine how weird their underground gaming scene is. People like to call unlicensed games "bootlegs" but they've got actual bootlegged games! I've played games about helping your grandmother in hospice care realize she's a lesbian by reading Sappho to her, at 2am in a speakeasy in Baltimore. The cops raided it the next night, hundreds of Gamers were arrested. They posted pictures all over Friendster of the Baltimore PD destroying the arcades with axes.

I nearly got busted once because I was imaging old disks from a 386 and someone tipped off the gaming cops that there was a copy of Commander Keen in there. I had to prove that I didn't know it, I was imaging the disks blind and then indexing them later, and I would of course turn over any contraband to the proper authorities.

I was already on a watch list because I'd been known to have some gamedev-related activities pre-ban. They can't arrest me for making games back in 2007 when it was still legal, but they do want to keep an eye on me since I have the skills to break the law.

Anyway that universe's bootlegs are mainly PC games. Can't really have console games if there hasn't been a console release since the Wii/PS3/360 era. At one point Nintendo threatened to release the Wii SDK so game devs in the US could make unlicensed games, but that didn't happen as there were quickly no functional Wiis left in the US, except for very rare holdouts that never move. PC games are easy to distribute samizdat and hide on a USB stick or CD-R labeled "nickelback".

Japan's games industry is still going, so the later Nintendo and Sony consoles still exist, but Microsoft got out of the business of course. They sold the franchise to Sega who were hoping to release the 360 successor (the Xbox One in our universe) as the Sega Phoenix but it never materialized, either through their own financial incompetence or because of pressure from the US. There's a lot of international treaties that the US has pushed "and this aid only goes through if you ban games" clauses into. That would have been an official UN resolution if the USSR hadn't vetoed it. For once, thank God for the security council, eh?

I mainly get my gaming news through Japanese gaming sites (through a set of VPNs, since they're blocked at the border firewall), and some tor onion site run by a weird guy in Minnesota who is obsessed with documenting all the underground US games.

There's a lot being worked on, but it's always a tricky trade off. Too much attention and the police might be able to track down the creators, and it's basically impossible to fund underground games, as the VISA/PayPal etc funds get seized immediately. There's a whole task force for that.

Anyway one of the weirdest differences between our two time lines is that they've gone back and edited out gaming from a bunch of movies. Those that they can, of course. War games was just banned because they couldn't remove the tic tac toe ending. The Net just removed the scene at the beginning where she's playing Wolfenstein 3D, by recording some new screen footage and a new voice over. She's fixing a spreadsheet in the new edition.

(Yes, I've seen The Net from this alternate timeline. On Laserdisc, of course. I'm just that kind of person!)

They even edited Star Wars. You know that scene where R2-D2 is playing holochess with Chewie? They edited it to be a board game instead of holograms, because that made it too "video gamey".

Technically it's not illegal to show gaming in a movie, but it needs to be an 18+ film and you have to show the deleterious effects of gaming and/or the gamesters coming to a bad end.

This has affected films less than you'd think, to be honest. They were never great about showing video games even before they banned them.

Anyway, go have fun playing your AAA games with hundred-million-dollar budgets. I only play indie games made by people under a constant threat of arrest for their art.

[edisonsciencecorner]

DIY PD TRIGGER MODULES USB Type-C Power Delivery Trigger boards are used to output 5V, 9V, 12V, 15V or even 20V from a PD compatible power source. PCB assembled @jlcpcb #PD #stm #stmicroelectronics #pdtrigger #power #jlcpcb #pcba #pcb #components #electronics #modules #diy #microcontroller #programmer #USB https://www.instagram.com/p/Co90BsvPScU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[adafruit]

BIG BIG rainbows on "Sparkle motion" WLED driver board 🌈💡

We got our WLED-friend PCBs

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/12/02/leftovers-layout-wled-board-revision-a-completed/

and are testing it with various LED grids. First, we tried out a 16x16 NeoPixel grid that runs on 5V. Since that worked well, we're now onto a much bigger 60 x 60 grid - that's 3,600 LEDs! These are some NeoPixel pebble

netting samples we're also testing at the same time; each one has 20 x 60 pixels and uses 12V power, so it's a good test of the DC pass-through for higher voltages. Since WLED has a limit of 2000 pixels per output, this demo uses the three output ports that are then 'merged' together in memory to make a single large grid. We have more to test soon: the onboard IR receiver, USB PD, I2S microphone, extra I/O pins, and I2C, so watch for those videos as they come together. Coming soon -

[andmaybegayer]

weirdo fuckin router I got, which is the TP-Link Archer R5. I've been looking for a reasonably high end WiFi 6 AP and stumbled on this used for a steal. It's so thin! It's intended to mount on a wall with tape or a mounting hook, so it flat-packs the antenna array and makes the whole thing lie up against a wall. Those are collapsing RJ45 terminals, like you find on thin laptops sometimes. Takes 12V USB-PD power! Every decision here makes sense but it's such an unusual set of design goals. I guess this is partially the logical conclusion of the Deco line of routers, which are aimed at people who don't like that their routers are huge eyesores.

Set it up and did a BeatSaber run, definitely less blocky and higher quality than when I'm using my router which has to penetrate a concrete wall. Very handy. Might set up a smart power switch to turn it off when it's not in use although I imagine its quiescent power is pretty low.

[futureelectronic1527]

https://www.futureelectronics.com/m/stmicroelectronics. STMicroelectronics provides a complete solution for USB Type-C Power Delivery (USB-C PD) allowing customers to design applications requiring up to 100 W of power (20V-5A). https://youtu.be/eHA4fDRZIoM

[blubberquark]

Almost Good: USB-C

As of this year, USB-C is mandatory in the EU. All phones must charge via USB-C. This is good, right?

Well, almost. It's a step in the right direction, but it won't solve everything.

All that is meant by USB-C is the shape of the plug and the port. The USB type C port can be used for USB 2.0, USB 3.1, different fast-charging technologies like QC, PD, and other protocols like HDMI, DisplayPort, and thunderbolt. USB-C ports can be used with all kinds of devices, cables, adapters, protocols, and drivers. Some use only a subset of the pins, or use the same USB-C port with a different pinout. Now in theory, the EU directive is also supposed to standardise chargers and fast charging technologies, forcing sellers of phones to clearly label what kind of charger a phone needs.

In practice, you may already have chargers and cables that are incompatible with each other, or get downgraded to 5W trickle-charging and USB 2.0 data transfer speeds.

In practice, you may have a USB-C power bank and a smart phone, and you might accidentally charge your power bank from your phone, instead of the other way round. I saw it happen, albeit not to a programmer. Relatives of mine had cheap USB cables melt, and they were confused about USB-C to HDMI adapters. Are those passive adapters, or active components? Are USB-C to USB-A host adapters passive or active? Are USB charging cables active? Why do all kinds of things stop working when you use a USB-C extension cable?

I know the answers, but normal people don't. It's not the fault of the EU that people are confused about USB, or that the USB-C port is used for things that aren't USB, that smartphones don't have drivers for eGPUs, or that cheap USB cables you bought at the dollar store aren't made to provide 240W of power to gaming laptops.

In practice, USB-C is almost good.

[sudrien]

*gasp*

If I could stick a processor (a raspberry pi 5 compute module maybe? ) with proper USB PD in the Ajazz AKP846 it would be getting so close to The Dream

[fishmech]

The thing is if you can't afford a new computer with at least 8 gb of RAM, then you can't afford a new computer. You're just going to have to wait, or preferably buy a used computer with that in there already.

Your goal when buying a laptop for yourself or someone else is that it should last 4 or 5 years if it doesn't get broken from physical damage. This is about the usual timeframe people keep such devices these days, and you're not going to manage that if you buy something so crippled from the get-go that it's already not very usable now. So that's why you look for at least 8gb of ram, a processor not older than 2020, 1920x1080 screen minimum. These are things that are still gonna let you do stuff that isn't gaming or high res video editing in like 2029.

and ideally you get a laptop thats either uses USB-c for its default charger or allows you to charge it in at least some capacity with a high power USB-c charger.

Because then if/when your main charger breaks you can always be assured that you can get a generic USB-C charger with Power Delivery and a high enough output (many do 65 or 90 or 100 watts now, more than enough to use and charge most laptops that offer USB-c charging) and you don't have to worry about finding your manufacturer's proprietary adapter or fiddling with those "universal charger" packs and finding the right tips and voltage setting. You can just buy a $40 USB-c pd charger and it'll also charge up your other modern shit like a phone or tablet or most wireless earbuds and ereaders and all that. Thank you European Union directives on standardized power designs which products in every country are moving to now.