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24 alternatives to We built an open USB-C Power Delivery analyzer and programmable sink
Title: Show HN: We built an open USB-C Power Delivery analyzer and programmable sink Hi HN! We’re Arbi, Marco, and Rob, and we built Dr. PD to make USB-C power problems easier to understand. It sits between a power source and device, captures and decodes their USB-PD negotiation, and correlates it with voltage and current measurements. It can also act as a programmable sink, with support for fixed supplies, PPS, AVS, and USB-PD 3.2 EPR up to 240 W. Commercial USB-PD analyzers are often priced beyond the reach of hobbyists and independent designers. We are on a mission to make high-quality…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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2019 · blog.oxplot.com · its alternatives →
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We built a multi-port USB-C PD3.2 system that treats power delivery as a software-defined problem rather than fixed-function silicon. This started as our internal R&D platform while developing a consumer charger. We were uncomfortable with the typical “the FAE handles the firmware, you just build the hardware” model that dominates the PD ecosystem. In that model, key behavior lives in vendor-controlled binaries, arbitration rules are opaque, and meaningful customization is either discouraged or impossible. We wanted full ownership of the system — from power stage to protocol logic — and we…
Mar 2026 · crowdsupply.com · its alternatives →
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After years of making screwdrivers and teaching people to repair electronics, we just made our first electronic tool. It's been a journey for us to build while hewing to our repairable principles. We're really excited about it. It's a USB-C powered soldering iron and smart battery power hub. Super repairable, of course. Our goal is to make soldering so easy everyone can do it: https://www.ifixit.com/fixhub We didn’t want to make just another iron, so we spent years sweating the details and crafting something that met our exacting standards. This is a high-performance iron: it…
2024 · hackaday.com · its alternatives →
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Find and compare USB hubs on found Amazon to find the USB hub you have been looking for.
2020 · usb-hubs.org · its alternatives →
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The rugged 137W PD charging laptop power bank
2019 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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I've been hacking away lately, and I'm now proud to show off my newest project - The Icepi Zero! In case you don't know what an FPGA is, this phrase summarizes it perfectly: "FPGAs work like this. You don't tell them what to do, you tell them what to BE." You don't program them, but you rewrite the circuits they contain! So I've made a PCB that carries an ECP5 FPGA, and has a raspberry pi zero footprint. It also has a few improvements! Notably the 2 USB b ports are replaced with 3 USB C ports, and it has multiple LEDs. This board can output HDMI, read from a uSD, use a SDRAM and much more.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We wanted to do something very challenging to prove to ourselves that we can do anything we put our mind to. The reasoning for why we chose to build a toy TPU specifically is fairly simple: - Building a chip for ML workloads seemed cool - There was no well-documented open source repo for an ML accelerator that performed both inference and training None of us have real professional experience in hardware design, which, in a way, made the TPU even more appealing since we weren't able to estimate exactly how difficult it would be. As we worked on the initial stages of this project, we…
2025 · tinytpu.com · its alternatives →
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DOCKCASE▲121Smart USB-C hub with visual operating system control screen
2021 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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using RF to power an MCU and 21 animated LEDs from a smartphone
Aug 2026 · wilsonharper.net · its alternatives →
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World's First USB-C Adapter Hub with SSD Enclosure
2019 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
- 13AP
2021 · postdrc.com · its alternatives →
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A 90W power supply with a USB-C hub Integrated together
2018 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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USB PD Sink implemetation for embedded. Contribute to pdsink/pdsink development by creating an account on GitHub.
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tracking history of USB events on GNU/Linux. Contribute to snovvcrash/usbrip development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · trontium.com · its alternatives →
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3D printing is such a fascinating field of technology, so a couple months ago, I decided to take a deep dive and learn how they actually work! This took me to one of my very first PCB projects, a small, cheap, 3D printer motherboard. While it's not the most cutting edge board, I learned a lot and I fully documented my process designing it (https://github.com/KaiPereira/Cheetah-MX4-Mini/blob/master/J...), so other people can learn from my mistakes! It runs off of an STM32H743 MCU, has 4 TMC stepsticks with UART/SPI configurations,…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Science and engineering experiments in your pocket
2018 · pslab.io · its alternatives →
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SuperCharger 2.0▲125A USB-C Hub & fast charge power bank all in one
2019 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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linedock▲108Laptop Power Bank with 1 Day Autonomy, 9 Ports Hub & 1TB SSD
2018 · linedock.co · its alternatives →
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External drive meets USB-C hub
2021 · satechi.com · its alternatives →
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Discovering unexpected sophistication in everyday objects
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
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