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Arduino (Italian Electronics Company) acquired by US-Based Qualcomm (blog.arduino.cc)
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Today weโ€™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 โ€“ 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 [โ€ฆ]

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[โ€“] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 week ago

Yup. The board designs are open, the IDE is open, the wiki is open, so nothing keeping me with the brand

[โ€“] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More likely it's lock in and a lie.

[โ€“] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Physical lock-in...in an open source design?

[โ€“] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

Thatโ€™s reassuring, thanks for pointing it out:)