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  • Yes, but think about it like you’re a Chinese manufacturing engineer with only basic electronics education. You COULD do that design, build out the pcb, custom tool it to fit your plastic housing, etc etc… Or you could go to the manufacturer down the street who already makes pre designed voltage reg MCU’s on a board and spend like, 20 minutes in an IDE to code the specific voltage levels and button presses.

    When production volume and turnaround time is the only things that matter in this shovel waste crap, “wasting” silicon is less expensive financially than building out the optimal solution.