[chbot] Anyone tried Embeetle?

[Charles Manning]

After a little bit of fiddling (setting up a couple of libraries etc), I
have the blinky LED going with the debugger etc. Running at 144MHz.
Using a Linux host.

I bought this kit:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005069239098.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.24.7cd71802kcztxk

It has the WCH debugger, a board with the CH32V203 (which I am testing) and
another board with the lower cost (and slower) CH32V003.
It even comes with 5 of each micro in tapes!
The whole kit costs around $NZ27.

There is also a "black pill"-ish form factor:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004908206775.html

The CH32V003 is the ridiculously cheap "10 cent micro". 32-bit RISCV
running at 48MHz. (NZ 20 cents each off Aliexpress in low volumes).

I am looking at the CH32V203 because I want to use the 144MHz clock with a
PWM to get the resolution I am after.  This is about NZ $1 in very small
volumes.



On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 7:55 PM Richard Jones <richardandjanenz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Charles,
>
> I had never heard of embeetle until your post. It does look interesting
> and I appreciated the cartoon explanations of how it works, especially
> treating makefiles and config as code. Most refreshing and thanks for
> posting.
>
> For those interested the Linux download includes x86-64 executable so does
> not run on my rpi so far.
>
> Extract under x86 Linux using: 7z x embeetle.7z
>
> Now I have the gui starting up I will explore further, probably on stm32
> for starters.
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard Jones
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 3:10 PM Charles Manning <cdhmanning at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I thought I might give Embeetle a spin for playing around with some WCH
>> RISCV devices.
>> https://embeetle.com/#
>>
>> I wondered whether anyone has tried it and has comments?
>>
>> -- Charles
>>
>>
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