Linino-Enabled Arduino Yun Shrinks In Size and Cost

DeviceGuru writes: Arduino announced a smaller, cheaper Arduino Yun Mini version of the Arduino Yun SBC at the Bay Area Maker Faire [Friday]. The $60 Arduino Yun Mini SBC sacrifices a number of interfaces in order to reduce size, and gives the OpenWRT Linux based Linino distribution, which is also used by the original Yun, more control over the board's functions. Arduino also announced a new community web portal called my.arduino.org, plus an open source Arduino IDE-alpha development system that is entirely based on JavaScript, which will be available there by the end of the month.

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This is not Arduino

[Anonymous Coward]

Bad form Slashdot. The Yun Mini is not official Arduino. Arduino.org is hosted by the PCB manufacturer that is trying to hijack the Arduino brand. The official Arduino site has always been Arduino.cc, and there is no Yun Mini there.

Not an Arduino.cc product

[NimbleSquirrel]

Arduino SRL, formerly Smart Products, was created by one of the five original creators of Arduino. For years they produced hardware and paid royalties to Arduino.cc, helping to keep the project alive. Yet at the same time they sneakily registered the Arduino trademark in Italy without the knowledge or permission of the other co-creators. Suddenly, now that Arduino is successful and widely used, they rebranded themselves as Arduino SRL, registered the Arduino.org domain, and are promoting themselves as the creators of Arduino. They also stopped paying any royalties to Arduino.cc and have ceased supporting that project altogether.

Why is Slashdot promoting this company trying to falsely cash in on the Arduino name? I know I won't be giving them a cent. Go to the original project instead: Arduino.cc

Re:Not an Arduino.cc product

[NimbleSquirrel]

Arduino LLC, which is the company all the co-creators founded to handle trademarks and licensing filed for and received the US trademark for Arduino. They tried to file for the international trademarks as well, and that is when they found out Smart Projects (later named Arduino SRL) had registered the trademark in Italy. Since then Smart Projects/Arduino SRL have tried to hijack the brand. They have also tried to argue that since they made the hardware, they should have the US trademark as well. Nevermind that they paid licensing fees to use the brand for many years.

Re:Cheaper?

[ArcadeMan]

edit*: this is not a true Arduino, this is something made by the "other guys".

If you want the real Arduino stuff, go to Arduino.cc

* sort of an edit. Thank you Slashdot for your forum system from 1965.