EEVblog #1306 (5 of 5): Spooky Action - Hardware Testing

[EEVblog]

Spooky action at a distance!
Something doesn't go quite right with testing the programmed Padauk 3 cent micro.
5th and final part in the Padauk 3 cent micro Free PDK video series.

[johnlsenchak]

You need to get Dave #2  back  for a couple of  hours  of his programming  knowledge

Anyway,  I like   the   multi-part  series  but  instead of   all   of the them in a week, maybe just one per week instead.

[pickle9000]

To me this series is a good example of what it's like to be a professional engineer. Basically you need to be brave enough (or stupid enough) to say yes I can do that. After the fact you hit the books "or whatever" and just get at it. The life of a contractor. 

[maginnovision]

This specific video is a good example of why arduino was a success. Take the register work out of the loop and have a small framework to have mostly across the board defined pin names or peripherals.

Also... This is the only one of the 5 that seemed interesting to me(sort of a response to your community tab frustrations). Dicking around with other peoples work really isn't that interesting to me. Just like all those badge projects and whatever... Only watched this to see what your problem was then skimmed through after a couple minutes.

[Ranayna]

I will post it here on the last video, but this applies to all of them.

This video series was among the best stuff you have made so far, Dave! 
This shows so many of the potential pitfalls you can encounter during a project like this. That very usefull information would be totally lost if you would edit these videos into a short, perfect tutorial video. And this off the cuff recording shows that you are just a normal person like anyone else. So many other people try to show only their absolutly perfect stuff, setting totally unrealistic expectations in their audience.

Speaking about the topic in general: I have to wonder how a western manufacturer would have reacted, maybe ten years ago, if such a massive and apparently successful reverse engineering effort would have been made, targeting one of their products...
In that vein: Has anyone from Padauk commented on this?

[spth]

Speaking about the topic in general: I have to wonder how a western manufacturer would have reacted, maybe ten years ago, if such a massive and apparently successful reverse engineering effort would have been made, targeting one of their products...
In that vein: Has anyone from Padauk commented on this?

There is a page on hardware vendor relations on the SDCC wiki (the wiki Dave tried to access in episode 4 through a dead link in the manual pdf): https://sourceforge.net/p/sdcc/wiki/Hardware%20Vendor%20Relations/

I have been in contact with Padauk. They helped me by answering some questions on technical details of their devices, and providing clarifications (and updates) of datasheets. Recently, they also offered to send a few sample devices I had asked them for (some Padauk µC that are hard to find at distributors, such as the PFC161).