Giveaway Week 2023 – WCH CH583M-R0 development board and some RISC-V microcontrollers

Early this year, WCH sent me a few of their RISC-V MCU boards and chips to thank me for writing about their products. I gave one for review with some chips but it went to review heaven, or in other words, no review was ever written. I also sold a couple locally, and since I don’t think I’ll ever have time for a review, we are now giving away the remaining boards and chips here and on CNX Software Thailand.

Today’s giveaway is the WCH CH583M-R0-1v1 board, also known as CH583EVT or CH583M-EVT-R0, based on the CH583 RISC-V Bluetooth 5.3 LE microcontroller that exposes all I/Os from the chip, a few buttons, and USB ports, and also features an SWD/UART header for debugging.

CH853M-R0 development board

You’ll find the documentation, code samples, an Android app and other resources to get started on GitHub.

I’ll also throw all the remaining chips I have left which should make this giveaway more interesting to people planning to make their own board(s). That includes five CH583 chips, three CH32V307 microcontrollers, and five CH32V003 “10 cent” RISC-V MCUs.

WCH giveaway board MCU

To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say (no links in the body of the comment). If the country is missing, I’ll consider the entry void. Other rules are as follows:

  • Only one entry per contest. I will filter out entries with the same IP and/or email address.
  • Contests are open for 48 hours starting at 10 am (Bangkok time) every day.
  • Comments will be closed after 48 hours. If comments are open, the contest is still going on.
  • Winners will be selected with random.org, and announced in the comments section of each giveaway.
  • I’ll contact the winner by email, and I’ll expect an answer within 24 hours, or I’ll pick another winner. Note that I may not be able to contact people who log in with Facebook, Twitter, or Google, so it’s better to use an email address to enter the draw.
  • Shipping
    • $11 for registered airmail small packet or ePacket for overseas shipping payable via PayPal within 48 hours once the contest (for a given product) is complete. If PayPal is not an option in your country, we can try to find another payment solution.
    • All prizes will be shipped at the same time once we get all the winners, so around November 15.
  • I’ll make sure we have 7 different winners, so if you have already won a device during this giveaway week, I’ll draw another person.

The board itself sells for around $8.5 shipped on Aliexpress, but that would be without the extra chips, and Thailand Post can’t quite compete with the ultra-cheap shipping options from China…

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Charles Barker
Charles Barker
11 months ago

Hello from America!

Chris Ivarsson
Chris Ivarsson
11 months ago

Sweden. Hope everyone’s having a great day! 🙂

Dean
Dean
11 months ago

Malaysia here!

Gabriel R
Gabriel R
11 months ago

Hello from the US. Love seeing the growth of RISC-V

Stanislav Vasilev
Stanislav Vasilev
11 months ago

Greetings from Bulgaria.

Linumiz
11 months ago

Hello from India!

Nicolau Lod
11 months ago

Hello from Brazil!!

Ivan
Ivan
11 months ago

Hello from Belarus

Lyle Holyoak
Lyle Holyoak
11 months ago

Woot, woot! RISC-y
United States, Montana

Jason
Jason
11 months ago

Cool. United States

RazorBurn
11 months ago

Australia

ye th
ye th
11 months ago

singapore

Stephan.B
Stephan.B
11 months ago

Hello From Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Codrut R.
Codrut R.
11 months ago

Romania, thank you!

lifelion
lifelion
11 months ago

France! L’amour du risque!

Balázs Gyenge
Balázs Gyenge
11 months ago

Hello from Hungary 🙂

tester99
tester99
11 months ago

Looks neat, thanks for the giveaways! From United States.

Alberto
Alberto
11 months ago

Hello from Germany!

NikolaS
NikolaS
11 months ago

Serbia

Balazs Gy
Balazs Gy
11 months ago

Hungary again, quite an interesting board to deal with.

Jasbir
Jasbir
11 months ago

Hello from UK!

Sergey
Sergey
11 months ago

Latvia

Elias
Elias
11 months ago

Hello from Brasil

repkid
repkid
11 months ago

Good morning from the Netherlands!

Michael H
Michael H
11 months ago

Poland 😜

Ezneh
Ezneh
11 months ago

Greetings from Belgium!

Carlos Santos
Carlos Santos
11 months ago

Hello from Portugal!

David Angosto
David Angosto
11 months ago

Hello from Spain

11 months ago

Poland, thank you for that complimentary inclusion

Kienan A
11 months ago

Would be neat to have a few of these lying around for prototypes, from America 🙂

Sathish Guru V
Sathish Guru V
11 months ago

Hello from India!

Andrea R
Andrea R
11 months ago

Hello from Italy!

rreignier
rreignier
11 months ago

France here.
Thanks for the giveaway week.

haiko
haiko
11 months ago

Hello from Czechia!

J.O.
J.O.
11 months ago

Slovakia

Sheng
Sheng
11 months ago

Canada

Andy Bloom
Andy Bloom
11 months ago

risk USA

Roy
Roy
11 months ago

United States

Chris Wilson
11 months ago

Hi from the US!

Hardip
Hardip
11 months ago

Hello from Australia 🦘

Alexander
Alexander
11 months ago

United States

Alex
Alex
11 months ago

Hello from United States!

David Willmore
David Willmore
11 months ago

I’ve been enjoying the CH32V003 chip. Reminds me more of a PIC than lots of other ARM and RISC-V micros. USA here.

Caio Pedreira
Caio Pedreira
11 months ago

Hello from Brazil !!

Wissy
Wissy
11 months ago

Merry tinkering from Germany

Jorge
Jorge
11 months ago

Hello from the US!

Jeroen Wolf
11 months ago

Greetings from beverwijk, the Netherlands. Ps sbc’s rock now i wish for a true 4:3 amoled of 4.7 inch 640x480px and the portable dream continues 😀🤗😜

Philip
Philip
11 months ago

Hello from the US of A!

Hussain AlRadhi
11 months ago

Hello from the U.S.
I’ve been working with AVR, Xtensa, and ARM and I would love to tinker with RISC-RISC-V

Pascal C.
Pascal C.
11 months ago

Hi from France!

Arif Darmawan
Arif Darmawan
11 months ago

Hello from Indonesia,

Tim Breitberg
11 months ago

Risc-v should be the future. I wish I were learned on programming so I could do more for the community.
I’m in the USA near Chicago!

Occam
Occam
11 months ago

Tennessee USA

Alfio Bosco
Alfio Bosco
11 months ago

Hello from Italy

Amitesh Singh
Amitesh Singh
11 months ago

Hello from India

Miguel Davila
Miguel Davila
11 months ago

Ecuador here

Max
Max
11 months ago

Hello from Texas USA

Bill
Bill
11 months ago

The RISC V architecture is very intriguing, so I have interest. UK.

Snehith
Snehith
11 months ago

I am from India waiting for your boards

radist
radist
11 months ago

I am from Germany))

Elias
Elias
11 months ago

Hello from Brazil

Harshal Advane
Harshal Advane
11 months ago

Hello This is Harshal from India

11 months ago

Exciting opportunity! I’m entering from India, and I’m eager to explore the possibilities with the WCH CH583M-R0 development board and RISC-V microcontrollers.
Thanks to CNX-Software for hosting this giveaway! 🚀
Good luck to everyone, and may the RNG odds be ever in our favor! 🤞
#Giveaway #RISC-V #TechEnthusiast

Vinay S
Vinay S
11 months ago

Hello from India

George
George
11 months ago

Greetings from The Netherlands!

Odirile Frank Garebabitse
Odirile Frank Garebabitse
11 months ago

Hello this Odirile Frank from Botswana Gaborone.

Mircea
11 months ago

Hello from Romania!

Radu
Radu
11 months ago

Nigeria

Silver
Silver
11 months ago

Hello from an embedded hobbyist in American.

Brice
Brice
11 months ago

Hello from France

Suyog Patil
Suyog Patil
11 months ago

Hello from India

Suyog Patil
Suyog Patil
11 months ago

Hello this is Suyog from India.
I am electronics enthusiastic.

Arne
Arne
11 months ago

Hello from Belgium!

Abhishek Kalyankar
Abhishek Kalyankar
11 months ago

Hello from India. Wassup

Hicham
Hicham
11 months ago

Bonjour de France

Hong
Hong
11 months ago

USA. RISC-V is future.

Ben
Ben
11 months ago

Hello from Hong Kong

Dhruv Menon
Dhruv Menon
11 months ago

Namaste from India

Marek
Marek
11 months ago

Poland

Amin
Amin
11 months ago

Hello from Scotland, United Kingdom

8bitsquid
8bitsquid
11 months ago

United Kingdom, the extra chips is great, along with a deal for cheap PCBs would be fun to experiment

brian smith
11 months ago

Hello from UK

Erik S
Erik S
11 months ago

Greetings from Sweden 🙂

Erik S
Erik S
11 months ago

My comment has a exclamation mark on it, let’s try again. Hello from Sweden 🙂

Byan
Byan
11 months ago

Indonesia here!

Luciano
Luciano
11 months ago

Hello. United states

Jason
Jason
11 months ago

Good morning from the USA

Kimmo Lahtinen
Kimmo Lahtinen
11 months ago

Finland, I have been interested in risc-v chips.

Aleš
Aleš
11 months ago

Hello from Czechia.

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David Zabala
11 months ago

Hello from Colombia

DressMA
DressMA
11 months ago

Ahoy !
United Kingdom

Todd
Todd
11 months ago

United States… yeet!

Sanyam
Sanyam
11 months ago

Greetings from INDIA 🙂

Màrius Montón
Màrius Montón
11 months ago

Hello from Catalonia.

tom
tom
11 months ago

Hello from England – – I’m Polish BTW 🙂

C Silvers
C Silvers
11 months ago

Hello from the United States.

udif
udif
11 months ago

Thanks from Israel

JJ Michel
JJ Michel
11 months ago

France, bonjour.

John Cristian Fasmer
John Cristian Fasmer
11 months ago

Hi

Greetings from Florida.

Douglas
Douglas
11 months ago

Greetings from Michigan, United States of America. I have been reading about RISK-V to understand more. I have worked with AVRs, Microchip dsPICs, and ARM M33 with RTX5 RTOS.

Vinob Chander R
Vinob Chander R
11 months ago

From INDIA

Vinob Chander
Vinob Chander
11 months ago

Hello from INDIA

Kedar Koppikar
Kedar Koppikar
11 months ago

Hello from India

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