Damn man... That's a fantastic memory you've got there.
If it weren't for the fact that their name has "fruit" in it, I probably wouldn't remember exactly which company I'm not being friendly towards. Once the "fruitcakes" association was made... the rest was history.
The whole thing sucks, though. I've got a project I'm working on right now that uses an SD card breakout board of theirs, that I've bought several years ago. I have others, but this one is bare bones with no electronics on it, which is what I want. I've thought about tossing it in the trash out of principle, but hey... 1) the company name is on the bottom and out of sight, and 2) it was purchased way before I settled on the boycott decision.
Part of me wishes they'd write back and say "Hey... look man... We're sorry, and we canned the blue-haired faggots... We promise to never get into identity politics ever again..."
edit: transposed two words
I know what you mean. I posted in another comment about how Adafruit has done a lot for the microcontroller community and has an amazing array of products. But I just can't get past the wokeness of the company. If you look at their purple-hair founder, it's not surprising.
When you say you have an SD card breakout with no electronics, is it something like this? https://www.sparkfun.com/products/544
That BOB is pretty similar to the one I have... mine supports a full-size SD card and has the full pinout (both the SD card mode and SPI mode pins).
That one would work just fine for my project even though it doesn't have the full pinout, because it has the SPI mode pins and that's how I'm using it.
I think I'll pick up a couple of those, I don't think I'll ever use the SD card mode pins. I did manage to find the full SD card spec document a long time ago which describes that mode, if I ever wanted to head down that road. AFAIK the main difference between the SPI mode and SD mode is the speed.
Full size SD card, ok. Those are getting somewhat rare these days as uSD takes over.
I watch a number of feeds with stuff of that nature, if I run across something that may work for you I'll let you know.
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