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james_s:

--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on March 08, 2022, 10:46:59 pm ---They do provide one valuable service: they create breakout boards for ICs that are often small and hard to use on a breadboard and package the whole thing up along with documentation describing how to use them. This latter part is especially helpful when the original documentation from the vendor is written in horrible Chinglish. But, for the most part, their stuff is generally very expensive and I tend to order the raw parts directly from Digi-Key or Mouser instead. I agree with the hipster description!

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I've bought from them a couple of times when they had something I couldn't easily get somewhere else. I've also built a few of their designs myself using the provided gerbers. The real value they provide is as you mention here, the documentation and also source. I was trying to support them for that effort although I got really turned off when they got completely silly trying to ban words like master and slave in regards to SPI. That's just beyond stupid and I won't support the euphemism treadmill.

floobydust:
They also have issue with using the terms male or female to describe connectors.

magic:
What are they using instead, then? :o

(Or maybe nothing at all - just look at the pictures, customer :P)

thm_w:

--- Quote from: magic on March 09, 2022, 06:51:07 am ---What are they using instead, then? :o

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Adafruit are still using the terms "Male/Female" and "MOSI/MISO".
Just on their site they choose to define MOSI as "Main output, secondary input". There is no "banning" of the word that I am aware of.

As usual, people want to get their opinion across and won't let facts get in the way of it.

apelly:
Do we know the scale of this? Was it their whole database?

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