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Arduino official response - https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/11/21/the-arduino-terms-of-service-and-pr…

arduino's response to the discourse is here: https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/11/21/the-arduino-terms-of-service-and-pr…

There's projects like: https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/06/29/diy-radar-speed-sign-looks-and-work… but not sure about the regulations. Not radar, but last year there was a thread from someone who uses a webcam to record trains, and measures speed just through their pixel changes and framerate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738987 Might work well enough for fixed-route travel... railways especially, but maybe roads are close enough? Probably not as good if the vehicle has more directional freedom and can move diagonally or straight away from the camera. It's less likely to run into any radio licensing issues, though.

We've changed the link above to that URL from https://blog.arduino.cc/2024/08/03/patrol-the-pool-with-this-arduino-n… Thanks!

https://blog.arduino.cc/2017/10/05/arduino-announces-arm-partnership/ and https://hackaday.com/2017/10/05/who-owns-arduino/

The point is that there was no reason not to just contribute to Wiring and take it from there. The nefarious thing is that they took the project and rewrote its history to make it seem as if it was their own work, meanwhile still taking new Wiring development and incorporating it into Arduino, all without credit. So it was about control and ego. I would assume that even some open source licenses were broken. Also, Banzi wrote this: https://blog.arduino.cc/2013/07/10/send-in-the-clones/ lamenting this exact thing when it came to people doing it to Arduino.

I doubt you need that much hardware/costs, given that even an Arduino can do it [1]. From an outsider's perspective though, camera companies are probably hesitant to shake up what's already there which is probably they don't add such features. 1. https://blog.arduino.cc/2020/02/26/openastrotracker-is-a-tracking-and-…

We have some pro products built to industrial standards that replace controllers like PLC and they require zero soldering https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/05/12/portenta-machine-control-add-a-powe…

Note that Arduino is coming out with a new Nano board for the same chip (new RP2040) with 16MB of flash and wireless built in. No word on pricing yet, though: https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/01/20/welcome-raspberry-pi-to-the-world-o…

The companion arduino product released alongside this has WiFi/BLE [1]. Anyway, RPi as a brand carries a lot of weight. I can be sure this is a well-polished product that'll be both easy to learn and easy to go from prototype to final product. My experience with ESP had more rough edges. Maybe those have been paved over in the 5 years since I had a go at the ESP8266, but that's still an unknown to me, whereas if I go with the Pi I have no doubts. [1] https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/01/20/welcome-raspberry-pi-to-the-world-o…

Arduino just announced a new board based on the RP2040. Not competition, collaboration. https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/01/20/welcome-raspberry-pi-to-the-world-o…

I beg to differ - https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/01/20/welcome-raspberry-pi-to-the-world-o…

The accompanying blog post [1] mentions the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect [2], which includes "a highly efficient power section, a powerful WiFi/Bluetooth module, and the ECC608 crypto chip, enabling anybody to create secure IoT applications with this new microcontroller". It also looks quite small. [1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-silicon-pico-now-on-sale… [2] https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/01/20/welcome-raspberry-pi-to-the-world-o…

Yeah, just the fact that you talk about the Rust guy at Google shows how much you understand about programming languages. XBox, Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 aren't experiments, rather products used by more people than any software that you have probably ever produced. So what that IL2CPP is a transpiler? So were Objective-C and C++ on their early days, and yet they have a market share that Go is yet to achieve. Also it shows there is some learning required on the compiler design front. People also write CLI tools in almost every language, hardly a measure of success of any form. And for Go not being systems, that is actually something that it definitely is, as proven by F-Secure and Google. https://www.f-secure.com/en/consulting/foundry/usb-armory https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/08/23/tinygo-on-arduino/ Which still isn't the same as PTC Perc, Aicas JamaicaVM or Meadow.

Arduino also has "Arduino Pro IDE" that's based on Theia, a VSCode fork. https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/10/25/new-arduino-pro-ide-a-closer-look/ https://github.com/arduino/arduino-pro-ide

Blog post announcing this: https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/10/18/arduino-pro-ide-alpha-preview-with-… From that github repo: "Before releasing the source code we want to move out of the alpha and we want your feedback to do this! Please test the Arduino Pro IDE and report bugs or feature requests at: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-pro-ide/issues " I was about to complain about that but then I realized it's an electron app and the source is in their release anyway which just makes this a slightly weird statement.

Error 404 - Not Found... DOH https://blog.arduino.cc/2018/05/17/say-hello-to-the-next-generation-of…

And the Arduino designers do not object to people copying the electronic design (even less so if there are design changes like substituting in a different serial chip). What they ARE objecting to is people copying the branding and graphics (down to the "made in Italy"): https://blog.arduino.cc/2013/07/10/send-in-the-clones/ Still, different serial chips mean different device drivers, so one product shouldn't be sold under the other's name.

Unfortunately, there is not. Amazon will often group similar unbranded products together under the same ASIN. (This was a particularly serious issue for Arduino a few years ago, when Amazon started listing genuine Arduino products under the same ASIN as third-party clones: https://blog.arduino.cc/2013/07/10/send-in-the-clones/)

Shallow, SEO-stuffed summary of CNET and the Arduino post. http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/10/03/a-sneak-preview-of-arduino-tre/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57606189-76/heads-up-intel-ti-chips-…

Note that while we don't attempt to restrict uses of the "duino" suffix, its use causes the Italians on the team to cringe (apparently it sounds terrible); you might want to avoid it. (It's also trademarked by a Hungarian company.) It is covered here: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/FAQ Clones and fakes: http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/07/10/send-in-the-clones/ As far as I can tell, they tend to focus more enforcement effort on companies who sell sub-par ripoffs and defects as genuine. It looks like stamping them out is a full time job.

Thanks for posting! Arduino just covered it as well: "Fueling the Hardware Revolution with Tindie" http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/07/31/fueling-the-hardware-revolution-with…

A couple facts about Arduino to make sure the discussion doesn't take weird directions: - In the last years, the Arduino team has been releasing MORE open source stuff than it had been doing in the past. This is documented transparently in the yearly open source reports: https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/01/13/the-2021-arduino-open-source-report… https://blog.arduino.cc/2023/01/20/the-2022-arduino-open-source-report… Even recently, the flagship Arduino product (UNO) was renewed and with no surprise it's still completely open source. - In parallel, a vertical line of industrial products (managed by a subsidiary called "Arduino Pro") was added that for documented reasons has all the requirements of open source hardware (including full schematics and fully open source software stack) except for the CAD files which are available on request. This level of openness is the same as a Raspberry Pi, if not higher because all components are available on the market. The existence of this additional product line does not imply at all that Arduino reduced its commitment to open source because, as said above, such commitment is even higher than in the past. Based on these facts, in no way it is reasonable to state that "Arduino is going closed source" or that its business is "opaque". All opinions are legit, but if they don't take facts into account it's just misinformation or marketing...