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- europe@feddit.org
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 […]
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Well that is unfortunate.
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
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
Qualcomm haven’t exactly been known for their Linux friendliness on the Snapdragon X Elite chips… I don’t trust a word they say
Exactly… Qualcomm and open source are two things that I usually don’t see in the same sentence
I’m not entirely sure that we share the same definition of ‘exciting’. Good.bye.
It’s exciting for the founders because they made a shit load of money
truly exciting
ah, yes, I’m sure
“Truly” “exciting”
For the investors, obviously.
God damn it! 🤬
Fuck. Are you kidding me.
RIP Arduino, it was a joy while it lasted
It was a good run.
That’s unfortunate. But at least the development ecosystem is open and mature. ATMega328 dev boards are good enough, I have a few official Unos from years back and many clones.
damn they really have a weird definition of exciting news
Exciting for them to cash out and bail. You wouldn’t be?
ArduiNo thanks
So what’s the next alternative for Arduinos? ESP boards?
Just buy any old MCU!
BeagleBone ?
I don’t know if Chinese is that much better than American… I had some success with olimex (Bulgarian) for microcontrollers and SBCs
RIP.
Cool, won’t buy anymore - well, technically I got my company to buy genuine boards and modules from them. Not anymore.
Ok, since I already own an arduino, no need to buy another one…
