minerva1337

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   by minerva1337 5y ago

   Why does Arduino fear that cheap clones from Shenzhen will supposedly destroy their business model if full design files are released, but Adafruit (for example) does just fine? Maybe Arduino needs to focus on good engineering, better value
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   by minerva1337 5y ago

   It’s not really an “industrial control” device. By brief inspection, it’s a BGA SoC breakout with 1.8V or 3.3V logic levels, directly from the SoC to the outside world. An industrial device like a PLC would have galvanically isolated 24VDC
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   by minerva1337 5y ago

   It is also interesting that at some point, quietly, the Arduino engineers have quietly switched from Eagle to Altium. People may complain Eagle is not Free software, but at least it has a free-beer license available to view and edit the fil