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Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner Lets not pretend otherwise
- easyThrowaway 1y agoDid Arduino have any patents that were in some way useful to Qualcomm? I can't think of any other reasons for them to be interested in a retail-facing company, with mostly educational products, like Arduino. Honestly that's so far way from their usual stuff I'm expecting to find an "Our Incredible Arduino journey" blog post in a few years from now.
- rasz 1y agoQualcomm is not interested in manufacturing Arduinos, they dont even make chips capable of this thus new uno Q uses STM32 for Arduino bits. Qualcomm is interested in Arduino brand to compete with Broadcom Raspberry pi. Someone finally noticed how all those pis lead to BCM* design wins.
- beardyw 1y agoHaving never been much into electronics I got interested when the Arduino came out. But looking at the diagram I could see it was just an AMD chip with a handful of of passive components. I ordered a couple of the chips as through hole and set one up on a breadboard. I programmed it using the Arduino app, but hated that, so I set up without it, which wasn't much trouble. When I discovered ESPs, the Arduino app seemed the only viable route but I found Platformio had a good solution. All in all Arduino seems like an inspiration, without ever having been useful!