I was overbroad--There is no VAT in the US. Also, a couple of years ago, the US pulled out of a portion of an international postal convention that had allowed Chinese shippers to ship into the US with

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Sorry! but you are wrong, VAT IS involved here in the UK, it is not a local tax, there are no tariff’s on goods under £135.

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I think where the Atmel/Microchip AVR chips still hold their place is in battery powered devices, because they can operate from a wide voltage range without needing any additional power wasting regula

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I looked that up. Yes, it is a fun name. I wonder if I have to actually live there to get those postage rates. I think I'm packing up to go. Tom, wb6b

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Tuvalu has a capital city with absolutely the neatest name of any city on the planet. It comes up on trivia tests from time-to-time because it's the first country to celebrate New Years. Jack, W8TEE

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It makes sense for shipping rates to be reasonable. Lots of small businesses rely on it and, in any country, it helps their economy. Unless we want an economy where only fourtune 500 companies can aff

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It's the tariff, as well as shipping. There is no VAT involved, but EBay does collect your local sales tax.

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Worst type of tax Man ever devised. Jack, W8TEE

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Another thing to be careful of is, even if you opt for "North America" only on your eBay searches, a lot of foreign sellers are aware of that and now have drop-ship addresses in the US. Always pay att

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You may have noticed that the "Free Shipping" from many countries seems to have declined concurrently with increases in price. This probably reflects removal of free mail between those countries and t

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prices going up may well be due to Ebay etc adding VAT to all Chinese/foreign sellers listings.

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The problem is that the Arduino (Atmel) family have not kept pace. The STM32 family was doing pretty well in the Arduino IDE using the core written by Roger Clark. The the STM people came in and made

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Hi Dave, Glad to read your note. Another chip family to stay away from. I am amazed at how many Arduino 428 projects are out there that 'just work'. When I try to move even a simple program to a diffe

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This is interesting. I'll keep this in mind if I get a phony Blue Pill board. So far I've been lucky. Must have bought most of my boards before the sources of non-genuine STM32 chips started to be use

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David: I bought some Black Pills a long time ago and they both had the bootloader flashed on them. They were Maple Mini's and are actually the STM32F411 variety. As I recall, they cost around $10, but

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Hi I hope this helps anybody who is having problems connecting to their “Blue Pill” via ST-Link and/or USB. I had 6 Blue Pills that refused to program for various reasons. Some were fakes (or clones)

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I'll send a note off to Adafruit telling them of the problems. Jack, W8TEE

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Thanks for uploading the Adafruit libraries. I was getting the same errors while building the magloop controller software for the STM32F103 Nucleo-64. Builds just fine now!!

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I forwarded to Al. You should send Gerber stuff to him privately, as he's pretty busy. Jack, W8TEE

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Thanks for Gerber files. I tried to upload them to jlcpcb.com, I have used this company earlier and I'm satisfied with the quality. When uploading the files, as a zip-file, and run through the process

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