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In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not everyone was happy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2026/arduino-ceo-we-will-always-be-open-source

Arduino CEO: We will always be open source
In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not everyone was happy.

⚾ This machine lets you practice baseball solo, similar to Topgolf
https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/27/this-machine-lets-you-practice-baseball-solo-similar-to-topgolf/

This machine lets you practice baseball solo, similar to Topgolf | Arduino Blog
Topgolf has a pretty brilliant business model: let golfers do the fun stuff (driving balls at max power), without any of the complications, time commitments, or logistics of running through a full 18-hole course. Batting cages exist to do something similar for baseball, but Pete LeMaster didn’t want to practice batting — he wanted to […]

Call me crazy, but I've been using #esphome more and more for not #smarthome related things for which you normally would use something like #arduino and it works great.
No researchin…

It's one thing to build something like this following a tutorial. It's a whole other thing to try to understand how it works. Time to dig into some data sheets and Arduino library code.
#electronics #arduino

"Arduino wasn’t valuable because it was just a microcontroller company. It was valuable because it was a commons. And you can’t apply enterprise legal frameworks to a commons without destroying it"
You also can't buy a #commons, at least without destroying it as a commons. The key point about a commons is that it isn't property.

Did Qualcomm kill Arduino for good? | Molecularist
The maker community worried Qualcomm would kill the Arduino ethos. New T&Cs confirm the community's worst fears. Here's what's at stake, what Qualcomm got wrong, and what might still be salvaged.

Wie zu erwarten war, geht #Arduino durch den Verkauf an #Qualcomm nun den Bach runter. Der neue Besitzer hat AGB und Datenschutz geändert. Die Arduino-Plattform ist somit wohl nicht mehr unter freier Lizenz. Auch erhält Qualcomm eine Nutzungsgenehmigung für alle hochgeladenen Materialien …

Was #Qualcomm und #Broadcom in die Finger bekommen, versuchen sie zu Gold zu machen. Aber wie bei #Midas verdorrt auch jedes Leben.

I heard about something call "Nano Banana Pro" and I was *really* hoping it would be something like this and not some fucking AI bullshit.
#noAI

"Qualcomm’s acquisition of Arduino and the company’s new Terms of Service sparks major concerns in the open source community over privacy and terms of service. What will happen to the Arduino open hardware and how does this effect Linux users?"
#Enshittification

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@prcutler/115645182336969386
A good episode! Listen to me get frustrated w/ the Arduino Uno Q, like the fellow in the video below, but with the added frustration of trying to make it work in a class room setting. Something Arduinos r…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@prcutler/115645182336969386
A good episode! Listen to me get frustrated w/ the Arduino Uno Q, like the fellow in the video below, but with the added frustration of trying to make it work in a class room setting. Something Arduinos r…

Arduino, 2005 - 2026
RIP :(
#arduino

'Dinge die mit "A" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag
Arduino Microcontroller

💋 3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices
https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/12/03/3duino-helps-you-rapidly-create-interactive-3d-printed-devices/

Thank you! This makes using the Uno Q much less mucky https://masto.ai/@shawnhymel/115611570461466484

Shawn Hymel (@shawnhymel@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image App Lab for the new UNO Q can be quite limiting. If you want to use the more powerful command line (CLI) to transfer and run projects, check out my guide here: 👇 https://shawnhymel.com/3074/how-to-use-the-command-line-cli-with-the-arduino-uno-q/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=general_courses_blog #embedded #microcontroller #Linux #Python #maker @arduino@mastodon.social

If you’ve written a Windows application that can read the Serial Number/Unique ID, or even the Vendor ID or Product ID of a microcontroller board (Pi Pico in my case) I’d appreciate any pointers.
#arduino #RaspberryPiPico

RE: https://social.makerforums.info/@easytarget/115599312744883084
This descent into capitalism by Arduino is so upsetting. Are there alternatives?

I never get tired of messing around with little circuits like this and seeing how they work. This is an Arduino board from @… running an example that loads data into a shift register. The source code does this with a single call to shiftOut() which hides all the details, but on a scope you can see the individual bits being added serially.

My number one reason for avoiding the Arduino UNO Q is that I don’t trust it will be around a year from now.