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A project log for LAMEBOY - another ESP12 handheld

fully portable ESP12 project with battery charging and power muxing

davedarkodavedarko 08/15/2017 at 22:524 Comments

Although I had my run on some designs using this chip, I had to check the datasheet again and noticed something weird. Everyones project I've seen just uses a button that pulls the pin to ground. But what can we observe here on P5? A pull-up resistor of 100kOhms pulls up the input, until  you push a switch that connects it to even more pull-ups? I should sleep and tomorrow remove my pull-up stuff from the board. 

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deʃhipu wrote 08/16/2017 at 12:10 point

That makes little sense. Maybe they meant Vss in there?

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davedarko wrote 08/16/2017 at 13:47 point

indeed. but that's also a lot of resistors to add, if they're really needed.

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davedarko wrote 08/16/2017 at 21:46 point

yep, I'm aware of them - but I go the easy route with just switch to ground for now. I still have 4 arrays on there.

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