I admit I love AliExpress specifically for low-end electronics components. I often shop around for stuff like IC’s and microcontrollers. And while you can get certain Microchip (Atmel), Texas Instruments and STM devices attractively from China, this has been starting to feel a bit odd to me. After all – a nation that retrieves rocks from the dark side of the moon is surely capable of making a decent microcontroller by itself. So why purchase Western parts from China, and not dip into the actual Chinese-made (and, in particular, engineered) stuff? So that’s what I did!
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