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https://www.usbmadesimple.co.uk/ is down...

Open matsobdev opened this issue 9 months ago • 3 comments

...for sale at this moment. I guess it should be excluded from datasheets recomendations on how to get familiar with USB.

matsobdev avatar May 02 '25 20:05 matsobdev

😢 Searching Google for usbmadesimple still shows cached results from the previous version of the site, so hopefully this is just a temporary glitch, and the old site will be restored at some point? 🤞

lurch avatar May 06 '25 12:05 lurch

The old content is still available at https://web.archive.org/web/20250415152420/https://www.usbmadesimple.co.uk/

jannic avatar May 19 '25 20:05 jannic

The old content is still available at https://web.archive.org/web/20250415152420/https://www.usbmadesimple.co.uk/

...which shows that the usbmadesimple website was owned by a company called "MQP Electronics Ltd", which apparently had their website at www.mqp.com but that too is also now down. And searching for the company name also finds https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02563219 which says that the company was dissolved on 31 March 2025, which obviously explains why both of those websites are down, and is a good indicator that they'll probably never be coming back 😢 I'll discuss this with my colleagues tomorrow...

EDIT: Oh blimey, and https://web.archive.org/web/20240622041625/https://mqp.com/index.html says that they actually ceased operations in December 2023.

lurch avatar May 19 '25 21:05 lurch

Thank you for the report. This has been fixed in our (private) sourcecode, and will be visible whenever we next publish updated versions of the RP2040 and RP2350 datasheets. After a bit of discussion, we decided to go with @jannic 's suggestion of just linking to the archive.org version of the site.

lurch avatar May 21 '25 08:05 lurch