Chain Blank Proto use cases
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I really can't see the point of the chain proto as it is now.
It just gives electrical connections to the chain bus. There isn't a direct way to create your own chain devices, maybe something with a different encoder or multiple switches, and add your own extensions to the bus protocol to read or write any information.
The example on the product page just shows a simple pushbutton connected electrically to an LED, which lights when the button is pressed. That has nothing to do with chain devices on a chain bus.
You could do that with a breadboard circuit powered over the chain bus pins.
Are there really any useful things you can do with the chain proto as it is, as a 'dumb' electrical connector? Any ideas?
In my opinion, a proto board on top of a programmable(!) STM32G031G8U6 connected to the chain bus would be much more useful to integrate with other chain devices. Of course, you'd have to somehow program the STM32 processor with your own firmware and also write chain bus protocol extensions to read/write data to/from it. Might be a nice project!
But that is what I was really expecting from the chain proto.
Any comments?