usb-c format

[curiouscarbon]

Hello, first post and sorry if this has been asked before.

Are there any plans for future teensy board with usb-c connection?

Pins are of course there, and adaptors exist. And turning a new rev has cost. Just curious. 4.0 and 4.1 are great.

Thanks!

 

[jrraines]

I recently realized something I had not about USB-C. My bike computer was refusing to charge and I tried connecting it to 'known good' cable/charger combinations that would charge my Mac. The bike computer did not charge and so I concluded it was the bike computer. Tech support said to connect it to the USB-A to USB-C cord that came with it, with a charger that had nothing else connected. That worked.

USB-C does a complicated negotiation about voltage, etc. If one end of the cord is USB-A, I think that can't happen. If there are two devices on the same charger the advice from tech support implies that one device's negotiation might result in something untoward happening to the second device. I think all of this implies that my bike computer does not fully implement the USB-C standard.

I wonder how many other devices I received with USB-A to USB-C cables in the box are like this.

 

[CollinK]

I wonder how many other devices I received with USB-A to USB-C cables in the box are like this.

Only about 100%. It's very common to put USB-C socket on modern devices but actually have the devices use USB2 hardware internally. This is a supported thing and tends to work fine. I think the board is supposed to have a couple of resistors on it but the end result is a USB2 device that connects with a USB-C socket.