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Description: 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 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. Here's a simple design we whipped together. Since there isn't a lot of muxing or IO available, MISO and A2 share the same pin. Some interesting unusual things to watch for: reset is backwards from how we'd expect, and bootloader mode is entered by pulling D+ to 3V? Any CH55x experts out there who want to take a look and see if we got it all wired right? Anything we missed? #adafruit #arduino #qtpy Visit the Adafruit shop online - adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: learn.adafruit.com -----------------------------------------