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Today we’re sharing some truly exciting news: Arduino has entered into an agreement to join the Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. family! This is a huge step in our journey – one that allows us to keep growing, thriving, and making technology accessible to everyone, while bringing our values of openness, simplicity, and community spirit to an […]
Yes, but i havent bough a genuine Arduino for like a decade. Thats when they started upping the prices to ridiculous levels. Just buy a 1:1 clone from any of the many other brands.
They don’t even make the chips anyway. Atmel makes the chips, although there are lots of clones of those too I’m pretty sure. Arduino just standardized the design of the board and the software. But the lovely thing about standards is that literally anyone can follow the standard. This is why we like standards. I thank Arduino for creating one. And I wish they would still be around to create more, but if they’re going to turn evil, we can just drop them like a hot potato and keep using their standards.
Yup. The board designs are open, the IDE is open, the wiki is open, so nothing keeping me with the brand
Fun fact: Arduino Uno form factor boards have a gap between pins 7 and 8 of less than 0.1 inch. This was a careless mistake in EagleCAD, but it went to production and a lot of boards and shields were made, so it had to be preserved. To the point that specially molded pin headers that include that gap have been manufactured.
More likely it’s lock in and a lie.
Physical lock-in…in an open source design?
That’s reassuring, thanks for pointing it out:)
I’m not concernet about the hardware, but the software and the ecosystem. I wonder if we have another IDE that can compile Arduino code and access the library repo
If only they actually developed further instead of staying at that extremely low end for SO long. They could have partnered with Paul Stoffregen (Teensy) or whoever and pushed far further over the years.
Hearing them talk about growing is super odd in this context. It looked like they just wanted to chill the whole time.
The Arduino IDE is similar. You can still not select more of the console than what is visible. They completely broke it with 2.0 and do not fix it. It reverts all unsaved changes when you hibernate or sleep, absolutely ridiculous.
I seem to recall some business where Arduino split in half, that Arduino.cc and arduino.com were different entities, there was a trademark dispute leading to the “Genuino” name being used in some locales, there were some similar yet incompatible boards made, then Adafruit announced they were partnered with Arduino and would be the manufacturer for Arduinos sold in the United States, which then apparently fell through pretty hard because Adafruit won’t mention Arduino by name anymore. There was a brief stint working with Intel to make a couple x86 based boards, which went nowhere because Intel can’t handle releasing documentation about their products, and then they sell to Qualcomm, and now we’re mourning the loss.