Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V

Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by sitkack on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:39PM (#38223504)

The chips themselves are $1 qty 1. Remove the old chip, put your unlocked chip in its place.

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Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by IshKebab on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:03PM (#38223800)

It's beyond most people's ability, equipment and effort threshold to order 1 chip from digikey (how much is delivery on that $1?) and replace a QFN package.

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Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by AussieWog93 on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:04PM (#38224508)

>how much is delivery on that $1?

From AliExpress, it'd probably be $2-$3 including shipping.

They don't ask questions when ordering large volumes of microcontrollers either.

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Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by sitkack on Friday November 10, 2023 @11:29PM (#38227634)

Most people aren't going to be tearing down consumer goods and reflashing the firmware.

If someone wants to get a hot air station and a bunch of $1 chips and reprogram their own devices, it would cost them less than a hundred dollars, 150 tops.

Anyone can learn any skill. If you can draw anything recognizable, you can do electronics.

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Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by baq on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:26PM (#38224045)

how much is the soldering station to do that?

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Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by stagger87 on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:39PM (#38224222)

$100 and a steady hand :)

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Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by connicpu on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:29AM (#38231696)

I got a cheap hot air station from amazon for only $40, works quite well! Maybe another $10 for solder wire and $10 for flux and you're good to go

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