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The Arduino Split is Over, New Non-Profit Formed (arduino.cc)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the peace-of-Pi dept.

"Today is one of the best days in Arduino history," announced Massimo Banzi, Co-Founder of Arduino LLC, calling it "a new beginning" for Ardunio. Slashdot reader ruhri reports: Massimo Banzi and Federico Musto, co-founders of the Arduino Project, announced they have settled their differences that had resulted in the creation of Arduino LLC and Arduino SRL. A new, unified Arduino Holding and Arduino Foundation will be created.
"Massimo Banzi and Federico Musto took the stage today at the New York Maker Faire to announce the good news," reports a blog post at Arudino.cc. "At the end of 2016, the newly created 'Arduino Holding' will become the single point of contact for the wholesale distribution of all current and future products... In addition, Arduino will form a not-for-profit 'Arduino Foundation' responsible for maintaining the open source Arduino desktop IDE, and continuing to foster the open source movement by providing support for a variety of scholarships, community and developer initiatives."

73 comments

  1. Okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Cool story

    1. Re: Okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm for whichever presidential candidate promises to publically execute apk

  2. Why did they split? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did one want to pronounce it "Ar-dwee-no" and the other "Ard-yoo-ee-no"?

    --
    systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
    1. Re:Why did they split? by NotInHere · · Score: 2

      When two companies fight about something it usually boils down to money being their motivation.

    2. Re:Why did they split? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's your motiviation for what you do?

    3. Re:Why did they split? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lynching homosexuals.

    4. Re: Why did they split? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not OP. Fellow troll here. It's very simple. I don't consider it a successful day unless I offend at least 50 people.

    5. Re:Why did they split? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 1

      When two companies fight about something it usually boils down to money being their motivation.

      There have been many corporate feuds have have been mutually self-destructive and financially insane. These conflicts are often more about ego than money.

    6. Re:Why did they split? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We can compromise with Ar-dune-ee-o.

    7. Re: Why did they split? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your non-binary-friendly target number offends me.

    8. Re:Why did they split? by AlphaBro · · Score: 1

      Attention.

    9. Re:Why did they split? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Ardunio", at least according to the summary.

    10. Re: Why did they split? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How about 0xDEADBEEF offended

    11. Re: Why did they split? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Arudino

    12. Re:Why did they split? by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 1

      Did one want to pronounce it "Ar-dwee-no" and the other "Ard-yoo-ee-no"?

      I hear it was because Musto was jealous of Banzi's freaking awesome name

      Seriously - Massimo Banzi! Sounds like some 1980's action hero.

      --
      The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
  3. Excellent News by AlphaBro · · Score: 2

    Glad to here this is happening. My Arduino Diecimila lead to my first misadventure into the hardware world, and I still have it as a keepsake. Seeing the community fracture was sad, and it made many question whether open source hardware was feasible.

    1. Re:Excellent News by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 1

      It would be interesting to know if the somewhat narrow 'window' of feasibility helped encourage them to stop fighting.

      Actual 'Arduino' products sell at a considerable premium compared to just the relevant Atmel microcontroller with bootloader(for the minimalists) or the assorted mostly adequate clones(especially if you don't need 'shield' compatibility, the standard anonymous Chinese ebay special gets you a USB connector and handles the fiddly soldering for barely more than the price of the components); which is apparently a premium that enough people are willing to pay, either out of a desire to support the project or because the absolute cost of just buying all the official components so that things will Just Work is pretty small; but not really room enough for two confusingly similar and mutually antagonistic vendors.

      Aside from merely dividing the available marketshare, having the ongoing feud spoils both the 'support the project' and the 'make life simpler by just buying everything from the official vendor' incentives; at which point you have to be pretty motivated to try to figure out who the 'real' Arduino is; rather than either just buying one of the upmarket clones from Sparkfun or Adafruit or the like(if you are relatively cost-insensitive and don't want to deal with any uncertainties) or grabbing a pack of ten of whatever washes up on ebay(if price is the main factor).

      I really have no idea who was in the right on this particular feud; but that is likely part of the problem: if there is a clear winner and a clear loser(as with Xorg vs. xfree86) that is one thing; but if not, the people who are willing to pay more for a helpful and sane vendor have good reason to flee to one of the higher end clones, and anyone who wants to 'support the project' has to wade through an ugly and confusing mess to even figure out which purchase that implies.

    2. Re:Excellent News by LesFerg · · Score: 1

      OMG do you even grammar?

      I think you meant:

      Glad too here, this is happening.

      --
      If I had a DeLorean... I would probably only drive it from time to time.
    3. Re:Excellent News by AlphaBro · · Score: 1

      Wow, thats worse then normal four me. Were is mind? Maybe over their.

    4. Re:Excellent News by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Actual 'Arduino' products sell at a considerable premium compared to just the relevant Atmel microcontroller with bootloader(for the minimalists) or the assorted mostly adequate clones(especially if you don't need 'shield' compatibility, the standard anonymous Chinese ebay special gets you a USB connector and handles the fiddly soldering for barely more than the price of the components); which is apparently a premium that enough people are willing to pay, either out of a desire to support the project or because the absolute cost of just buying all the official components so that things will Just Work is pretty small; but not really room enough for two confusingly similar and mutually antagonistic vendors.

      Arduino clones work, as far as I can tell, exactly as well as the "real thing". I use mostly nanos because of the form factor and capabilities and the $3 CH340G version never leaves me wondering if I've been snookered and bought one with a fake FTDI chip which the driver will choke on.

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  4. And any with half a brain... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Will continue buying the cheap Chinese clones.

    1. Re:And any with half a brain... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This. Was exactly what I was going to say.

      With all the high quality $2 board clones available now and after such a shamming show there is no business selling overpriced 'genuine' $20 arduinos anymore for no good reason.

    2. Re:And any with half a brain... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or just build a custom board with a PIC

    3. Re:And any with half a brain... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And any with half a brain...Will continue buying the cheap Chinese clones.

      As useful as Chinese clones are those manufacturers make copycat boards, not new designs. Some companies like Adafruit actually do their own designs, but I'd be sad to see any of the actual innovative companies close shop just because copycat fabs undercut them. That said, the Arduino boards really are ridiculously expensive in comparison even to products from other innovative companies. The current Eslov kickstarter is gallingly expensive for what it is.

    4. Re:And any with half a brain... by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Buying an Arduino Pro mini in Canada:

      eBay: 2.48$CAD with no shipping or import costs, estimated delivery within 12-36 business days. Total: 2.48$CAD.

      Sparkfun: 9.95$USD (~13.06$CAD) with International Economy shipping of 3.45$USD (4.53$CAD), average delivery 2-4 weeks, may take up to 6 weeks. Total 17.59$CAD if I'm not hit with import fees.

      I can get SEVEN Arduino Pro mini from eBay for the cost of a single one from Sparkfun, and the shipping delay is more or less the same in both cases.

      I'm all for supporting the little guys but that kind of price difference is way too much.

    5. Re:And any with half a brain... by Shirley+Marquez · · Score: 2

      The price difference is so large that it usually works out better to buy the cheap clones and make donations to Arduino to support development.

    6. Re:And any with half a brain... by AlphaBro · · Score: 1

      While that's mostly true, I do have some Atmel based boards designed by companies that manufacture knockoffs. I've also got some FGPA and CPLD dev boards as well, and have seen ARM stuff.

    7. Re:And any with half a brain... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Recently got from Aliexpress an Arduino Pro mini ATmega328 for 1.24€ delivered to Spain in 2 weeks, and an ATmega328 Nano V3/CH340G for 1.64€ delivered in 26 days. Surprising very good quality, the nano even protected with a polyfuse. Better than the ones sold by Adafruit.

      Ordering from Adafruit would be $15, up to 45 days and $9 shipping. So yeah.

  5. Probably Just Creative Difference$ by BrendaEM · · Score: 2

    Now we just need a faster 5-volt version.

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
    1. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by Gaygirlie · · Score: 2

      Why 5V? What's wrong with 3.3V? You can get *plenty* of much faster, much more capable 3.3V-boards and if you wanted I could even hand you out a bunch of links and personal hands-on comments on various boards.

    2. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now we just need a faster 5-volt version.

      Which your better off getting from someone else entirely (specifically Teensy 3.5, can still use Arduino IDE):

      Features specific to Teensy 3.5:
              120 MHz ARM Cortex-M4 with Floating Point Unit
              512K Flash, 192K RAM, 4K EEPROM
              Microcontroller Chip MK64FX512VMD12 (PDF link)
              1 CAN Bus Port
              16 General Purpose DMA Channels
              5 Volt Tolerance On All Digital I/O Pins

      Features common to both:
              62 I/O Pins (42 breadboard friendly)
              25 Analog Inputs to 2 ADCs with 13 bits resolution
              2 Analog Outputs (DACs) with 12 bit resolution
              20 PWM Outputs (Teensy 3.6 has 22 PWM)
              USB Full Speed (12 Mbit/sec) Port
              Ethernet mac, capable of full 100 Mbit/sec speed
              Native (4 bit SDIO) micro SD card port
              I2S Audio Port, 4 Channel Digital Audio Input & Output
              14 Hardware Timers
              Cryptographic Acceleration Unit
              Random Number Generator
              CRC Computation Unit
              6 Serial Ports (2 with FIFO & Fast Baud Rates)
              3 SPI Ports (1 with FIFO)
              3 I2C Ports (Teensy 3.6 has a 4th I2C port)
              Real Time Clock

    3. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Perhaps thats just it. They can pick from a variety of faster more capable 3.3V native parts, but prefer to work with 5V peripherals and would like to have something equivalent to those faster more capable devices that doesn't require level shifting?

      So I ask why not 5V? When would having more options to work with be a bad thing?

    4. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As your name implies, real men only use 5V logic and real programmers only use ASM to ensure they don't need faster CPUs.

    5. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      At some point, the rest of industry moving on becomes relevant.

      As chip geometries shrink, so do the voltages that they require and withstand. This happened very quickly for core voltages used on the insides of fast chips... but creeps along just the same more slowly for interface and crude projects.

      At one point, 15V CMOS was state of the art, but you don't find many 15V tolerant designs or new chips at this point. So it goes with 5V-- it's harder and harder to support 5V external IO, let alone 5V logic, on modern process. There are just a few ARM microcontrollers with 5V VCC, and they are very slow. Newer designs do not even have 5V tolerant inputs. The power costs/wastes of a 3.3V design are substantial and difficult enough to justify.

      3.3V was mostly obsolete a decade ago; so it's not surprising that not much new work is being done at 5V.

    6. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Why 5V? What's wrong with 3.3V?

      Because if you're sticking to a standard central AVR part you'll find most of the line top out at a lower speed at 3.3V than 5V.

      As for what's wrong with 3.3V? What's wrong with 5V? Different voltages different usages. Just as many low voltage low power applications exist as devices that require 5V signalling which would be nice to use without level shifters. The only real question is why you think that one voltage is more capable than the other and why you think one should benefit the GP's without knowing his exact requirements.

    7. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      At some point, the rest of industry moving on becomes relevant.

      Oh I didn't realise USB has shifted to 3.3V. Or the many millions of chips that run 5V only have been dropped. You are right of course, the industry moving on would become quite relevant. Let me know when that happens.

      3.3V was mostly obsolete a decade ago; so it's not surprising that not much new work is being done at 5V.

      This post brought to you by the Google search "New 3.3V parts" and the realisation that from this search alone 5V is dead. You're right about speed, but that is born out of a technical and price limitation, nothing more. There's no relation to "newer designs" there. Pretty much every company is still developing 5V ARMs.

    8. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by caseih · · Score: 2

      But the problem is interfacing with the real world. There are far more cheaply available 5v components such as sensors that you can find than 3.3v. Before the days of 3.3v, 5v was the standard, so there are many many devices and circuits out there that work at 5v. I would be happy with a 3.3v arduino so long as it had built-in logic level converters to translate to 5v for at least some of the i/o pins.

    9. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by Gaygirlie · · Score: 1

      Because if you're sticking to a standard central AVR part you'll find most of the line top out at a lower speed at 3.3V than 5V.

      The last time I looked that only seemed to apply to the 8-bit MCUs. The OP requested faster ones, and the faster ones are generally 32-bit and use 3.3V, even from Atmel's line of MCUs.

      The only real question is why you think that one voltage is more capable than the other and why you think one should benefit the GP's without knowing his exact requirements.

      I *asked* the OP why he/she/it needs/wants a faster 5V-board. You do notice the question mark there? Also, I didn't say "one voltage is more capable than the other," I said that at 3.3V it's much easier to find faster and more capable MCUs -- just look through all the big guys' portfolios, like e.g. TI, NXP, STM and so on and you'll notice that pretty much all the faster options stop being 8-bit and are 32-bit 3.3V-parts.

    10. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by Gaygirlie · · Score: 2

      I would be happy with a 3.3v arduino so long as it had built-in logic level converters to translate to 5v for at least some of the i/o pins.

      Well, you're in luck: there are many MCUs out there that operate at 3.3V and do have at least some 5V-tolerant pins. Not all MCUs have 5V-tolerant pins, but it's also not that hard to find ones that have, and as such, your wish would be entirely possible.

    11. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by Shirley+Marquez · · Score: 1

      As so many replies have pointed out, nobody is doing much development on CPUs that operate at 5v any more. Going to lower voltages gives us higher speeds (as a side effect of the smaller geometries that the lower voltages enable) and lower overall power consumption.

      The downside is the increased difficulty of interfacing with the outside world. Once you move down to 3.3v operation you can no longer drive some colors of LED directly; you have to use some method of getting a higher voltage to reach the threshold voltage of the LED such as a charge pump. You can't drive all sorts of legacy peripherals directly. Your noise margins get worse, so simple interfaces like just sending signals directly out from logic pins to off-board things no longer work well. If you go down to even lower voltages like 1.8v it gets worse.

      5 volt CPUs have another related advantage: the outputs can source a lot more current. (That also comes directly from the technology: the larger transistors in those older designs can handle more.) Again, that means that a 5v CPU can directly drive something, but a lower voltage part will require a buffer transistor or IC.

      There are a few possible solutions. You can stick with an older 5V CPU if you don't need speed. You can use a CPU that has built-in level shifting such as the Cypress PSoC series. (The ARM CPU on the PSoC 4 and PSoC 5LP actually operate at 1.8v, but the inputs are all 5v capable and there are built-in level shifters for all digital inputs and outputs. The output voltage is whatever you supply on the appropriate supply pin, the input threshold is half of the voltage on that pin, and there are separate output voltage pins for each I/O port.) You can design or buy a board with level shifting for some or all inputs and outputs. You can design a system that uses an old 5v CPU for some external interface tasks and a lower voltage part to do the actual computing. (Arduino HATs for the Raspberry Pi are an example of a product that is intended to facilitate this kind of system design.)

      `

    12. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      The last time I looked that only seemed to apply to the 8-bit MCUs.

      Yeah I wonder why this would be relevant in a discussion on Arduino :-P

    13. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by Gaygirlie · · Score: 1

      You act like all Arduinos only use the 8-bit Atmel-parts. Take a look at, say, https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main... -- go on, you can do it, take a look. Arduino 101: x86! Arduino Zero: 32-bit ARM Atmel SAMD21! Arduino MKR1000: 32-bit ARM Atmel SAMD21! The now-retired Arduino Due: 32-bit ARM Atmel SAM3x8E! The Arduino.org - selection of products has an even wider selection of MCUs in use.

      The thing here is: the OP requested faster stuff, but Atmel doesn't seem to be producing faster 8-bit parts; if you want faster and insist on sticking to Atmel it's going to be 3.3V and 32-bit, and if you want 5V then you have to stick with what you already got.

    14. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      It's about $2 to get a four-lane bidirectional level shifter. This is not a massive problem. Also, there's loads of 3.3v sensors these days. A lot of the stuff I buy is actually 3.3v internally and has a VR and a level shifter onboard, and has both a 5v and a 3v3 input.

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
    15. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      go on, you can do it, take a look

      I did. Now I would provide you with the links to the Arduinos with 8bit micros but there's only 7 hours before bedtime and Slashdot replies have a word limit.

    16. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      USB is 3.3V signalling.

    17. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually if you search for any components, like displays, accelerometers, gps etc you will find they are overwhelmingly 3.3V chips carrying a voltage converter on the board to support 5V.

      All the 32-bit ARM chips I can find are 3.3V. Only the original 8-bit AVR is 5V.

      In fact the industry is moving towards 1.8V. The new Intel Edison and other high-density hardware is running at 1.8V.

    18. Re:Probably Just Creative Difference$ by caseih · · Score: 1

      Sure but having it already on a Arduino board (with maybe jumpers to select voltage) would just make it so much easier. Much of what you can do with Arduino can be done with very little external circuitry. That's what makes it so appealing to would-be hobbyists like me.

  6. This split caused me zero problems. by EmperorOfCanada · · Score: 1

    More competition is good. One of the great things about Arduino is that for whatever reason (maybe the split) they have largely been listening to customers. So many companies will create a popular product with low margins and then suddenly go upscale trying to get larger margins. I have exactly zero interest in a $30 arduino. To me there is a handful of segments. There is the full on computer, the raspberry, the esp8266/stm32, and then there are the Arduinos going down to the attiny85.

    Arduino has been keeping it fresh in that bottom rung. Things like the Yun and other bad ideas are what happens when a company stops listening to its customers. Or they try and pull shit like the Omega2 and try to bundle it into a high markup ecosystem.

    So maybe patching things up was good. But if things like a "pro" version of the arduino IDE are what come from this then boo hoo.

    1. Re:This split caused me zero problems. by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      More competition is good.

      The split did not create competition. It created incompatibilities. It created two IDEs with two different versions that would each blacklist boards provided by the other without any other advantage.

      Good that the split didn't cause you any problems. There were many forum posts from angry tinkerers who had a very different experience which got out of hand enough that I personally thought it may actually kill the platform. The platform is only as good as it's community, and that got fragmented with the split.

      Things like the Yun and other bad ideas are what happens when a company stops listening to its customers

      The guys never stopped listening to their customers. There is almost complete saturation in base boards in terms of feature diversity and the community has been calling for split boards with new features including ARM and FPGA co-processors. The Yun was an experiment to meet that and the rise of IoT. It didn't succeed and the fact that it was developed showed more that at least they are trying new things rather than just stagnating on their prior successes.

      But if things like a "pro" version of the arduino IDE are what come from this then boo hoo.

      The Arduino IDE is open source and has been ported far beyond it's original ecosystem. Even if they do pull that kind of shit that won't stop a very capable IDE continuing to be available for a wide variety of boards.

  7. Mafia Involved? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Rumours?

    Second-hand news?

    1. Re: Mafia Involved? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Second hand rumors?

      Russians?

    2. Re:Mafia Involved? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      If you don't like it you can go your own way.

      --
      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  8. Re: First post! I soak myself in grits! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is actually one of the more informative posts I've seen on here in months

  9. Re: The Terrorist Inside My Husband's Brain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I call bullshit. He probably died of a heroin overdose like everyone else.

  10. Re: and by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    With special sauce happy ending

  11. Arduino Jumped the Shark by Osgeld · · Score: 2

    Now with their 87 different incompatible models, all using the same junky IDE, constantly breaking support for stuff "that just worked" for years, I personally dont have time for their nonsense

    1. Re:Arduino Jumped the Shark by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree. All with different cables and protocols. Forced to use their weird IDE.
      The Raspberry Pi mostly solves all of these problems and gives you a lot more for the same price.
      I guess there are "special cases" where an arduino might work better for my projects --
      but I don't have time or inclination to learn their whole technical paradigm and all of it's variations.

    2. Re:Arduino Jumped the Shark by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      The Raspberry Pi mostly solves all of these problems and gives you a lot more for the same price.

      The Raspberry Pi also has the great capabilities of discrediting anyone who compares them to Arduinos in such discussions.

      Real men run only Cray Supercomputers and no one cares for your battery power requirement.

    3. Re:Arduino Jumped the Shark by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's bitztream, the annoying autism-hating Slashdot troll!

  12. One cofounder kept using tabs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When two companies fight about something it usually boils down to money being their motivation.

    You should be discussing people not companies. The two companies are an artifact that two project cofounders had a split.

    That said, outside the Linux community yes a split most often has to do with money, but within the Linux community it could be:
    - One cofounder said something nice about BSD.
    - One cofounder said something nice about emacs.
    - One cofounder thought "GPL v3 or later" a good idea.
    - One cofounder kept using tabs.
    ...

  13. Raw signals vs. protocols by DrYak · · Score: 1

    The Raspberry Pi mostly solves all of these problems and gives you a lot more for the same price.

    Depends on what is your intent.

    If it is just a small electronic gizmo (like making a small portable gaming console or driving a screen to show informations, etc...)
    Then yes, the Raspbery Pi is definitely better :
    more raw power (put a real linux instead of hacking raw firmware)
    supports way more things out of the box (it simply speaks standard A/V protocols like HDMI, much easier to hook to a screen)
    and even got a few protocols supported (USB, I2C, SPI, etc.) to hook up peripherals.
    (e.g.: you can hook 4-wire SPI speaking colour LEDs)
    Not to mention "big machine's" protocols like Ethernet networking and Bluetooth/Wifi either easy over USB (Pi1/2)or even better: built-in starting from Pi3

    But if you want to process raw signals (i.e.: connect to any kind of sensors that doesn't speak one of the above protocols) a micro controller is much better for handling the low-level stuff.
    e.g.:
    - you use sensors that don't output measurement over I2C but over analog channels.
    - you want to use 3-wire colours LEDs with a simplistic pulse-code
    - you want to make a converter for an old vintage console controller with some weird legacy protocole (or PC controller before USB became the standard. Like Logitech's ADI) to USB.
    Then a micro-controller like the Arduino is a better platform (even if it's sole purpose is to be a front-end that converts the weird stuff to USB/I2C which is then sent to a Raspberry Pi for display/processing/network diffusion)

    The only thing that Raspberry Pi, is the need to fumble with Wifi-shields on arduino
    (Though SD Card with Flash + embed Wifi server already solved most of this).

    --
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  14. The split that joins as a split by zephvark · · Score: 1

    I am not sure what I just read. This split community joined together as... two separate companies? Is this some sort of weird attempt at Newspeak?

  15. Hernando Barragán was robbed! by MrSteveSD · · Score: 2

    The story of how much of Arduino was appropriated from Hernando Barragán without credit is quite disturbing.

    https://arduinohistory.github....

  16. Pinout by dohzer · · Score: 1

    Have they also decided to change the ridiculous pinout that makes the thing incompatible with vero-board?

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