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Adafruit is not an arduino competitor. They sell arduinos
by malfist 11mo ago
Adafruit is not an arduino competitor. They sell arduinos
- sunnyps 11mo agoThey sell Arduino compatible boards (amongst other things) from what I gather, so yes, they would be competitors.
- andrewflnr 11mo agoI was very confused when the article referred to > Chief microcontroller rival Adafruit Implying that Adafruit makes their own competing microcontrollers, which sure would have been news to me. Edit: sees sibling posted at the same time. Well that would explain it.
- sho_hn 11mo agoHistorically neither of them made any microcontrollers. Arduino shipped Atmel and Raspberry Pi chips. Adafruit has boards with a variety of microcontrollers from various brands on them. This is different now that Arduino is Qualcomm-owned and ships Qualcomm silicon, of course.
- inferiorhuman 11mo agoTo be fair they're shipping Qualcomm+STM silicon now.
- rpcope1 11mo agoThey also sell feather and a bunch of other vaguely similar stuff and have their own "maker" ecosystem (think CircuitPython). I like Adafruit, but they are in many senses competitors to Arduino.