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As the co-founder of Arduino I can confirm this was a great inspiration for me. I learned electronics with this kit when I was 7 and it gave me also a great appreciation for design as well. The way I taught electronics to designers was also inspired by the method used in the book that came with the kit. I still have the book from my original kit. It’s an amazing tool

have you read the actual email.. ? It's pretty bad. I've co-founded a very succesfull open source project and I can assure you a lot of people treat maintainers like crap. One guy sent me a few mails with veiled death threats because I banned him from the forum (He was harassing users and the community decide to boot him...)

The Programma 101 is an amazing device. If you are ever in Ivrea (the birth place of Olivetti) there is lovely little museum called "Tecnologicamente" where members of the original Olivetti team meet up to fix Programma 101 and tell the story. It's not the CHM but it's a beautiful little place. http://www.museotecnologicamente.it/

users, especially beginners, like consistency. So you call that "stagnation" I call that "avoid adding stuff that people don't really need". We make more than 100 different products so we haven't stagnated at all.

Actually we're not going down that path at all. we are still doing the same things we were doing before. we have no plans for "enshittifying" our business model

What a fundamental contribution to the discussion :)

co founder of Arduino here) actually I hate web3 I think it's a pile of bullshit and it's slowly fading away... We've never been interested in that.

We do sell services but we try to avoid bullshit terms like "servitization"

no they won't... the money is used to develop our Professional products for enterprise customers.. the classic arduino will always be free. We've never build anything that would use licensing servers etc... BTW Arduino is headquartered in Switzerland/Italy/Sweden/USA so... no UK there

Actually there are 21000 companies that have bough our products and 2000 of them just the professional tools... so the situation is very different

If you respect the open source license , you're free to use the Arduino code in products. We offer a licensing scheme for companies that want to license the hardware designs to use in proprietary products. The IDE is there, it's free, it's more powerful than ever and it supports any architecture the community wants to work on. Free, no royalties no licenses etc

Arduino is supporting the official MicroPython project and has released ports for a number of boards in addition to tools like a simple MicroPython IDE and a GUI installer.

Hi (co founder of Arduino here) We're not doing any of that. Our partnerships based on products and whatever processor is the most useful for what we're trying to build. We're mostly working on robust industrial products that maintain the ease of use of the Arduino framework and we sell those to enterprises. very simple

Hi (co founder of Arduino here) Good old Arduino is still here, we're still releasing a ton of tools for the community, we're still innovating every day. We're using most of the funds to develop our professional offering. I believe this is a natural progression for companies like us. Our investors leave free to work on whatever technology and let us open source anything we feel can contribute to the community. They never interfere.. The R&D on the Professional products eventually benefits everyone. I strongly disagree with your statement

it's all open source, you can see part of it here https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-renesas

you can use GCC with https://github.com/renesas/fsp if you want to go very low level.

I came here just to write this... As the co-founder of Arduino I find this use of Arduino as a generic "microcontroller board" or "not a raspberry pi" a bit shocking.. :)

Arduino has a very good reputation for reliable hardware. Obviously this applies to official products. Shitty chinese clones have bad reliability issues...

Even some of those chinese clone PLCs are not spectacularly reliable... This is a professionally made device, developed in partnership with Finder which is a company with 70year of experience in making relays and other mission critical industrial equipment..

it's not an ESP32 it's an high quality Murata/Cypress module this is the datasheet https://content.arduino.cc/assets/Arduino-Portenta-H7_Datash...

Hi the main processor is made of 2 separate cores and they can run different software. The processor we use it's the top of the line for STM so it's not a dollar or two. The separation between the two cores is much more well defined that people might think. The Wifi BT is managed by a separate module with its own separate processor (The Wifi/BT is also optional on most models)

Hi we're working in the professional market because the market is requesting it. The Portenta is a family made of a number of devices. I think you're referring to the Portenta X8. Obviously we favor the use of Foundries because it provides the user experience we need for a lot of our customer. The Portenta X8 is not "lockdown" you can install what you want. Customers can request a different system software and we help them run it. I think it might be possible make a generic Yocto layer available for download if there is enough request

Interesting article but it completely ignores what was going on outside of the USA. the title should have had "in the USA" added to it

it's very easy to do with an Arduino. Get a nano 33 IoT it's enough and inexpensive. the buttons are simple to interface. to strike the bell you have two options 1 use a servomotor, it's less elegant but very easy to interface 2 use a solenoid , it will strike the bell very nicely (you'll need a MOSFET or similar to drive the solenoid from Arduino) from a software perspective you could use the Arduino cloud : in about 15 minutes you'll have it up and running. then you can use the API to control the bell . you can also use a generic mqtt server , there are tons of examples but you have to write a lot more code yourself. feel free to ask any questions

My Model 3 has this habit of randomly braking on the motorway and it's quite dangerous. There is a particular spot I pass by almost daily that I know already the car is going to suddently brake.. I turn off all automation, I drive for a Km and then I go back to autopilot. Super dangerous...

BTW Arduino boards can do WAY more than blinking LEDs. I guess most of the people still call Arduino the original 8bit board but since then we developed a ton of very powerful boards capable of running machine learning and instrial tasks. In certain environments it's actually better and more reliable to use a powerful MCU instead of a Linux SBC

I would recommend looking at the official Arduino Portenta, it's a dual core Cortex m7 + Cortex M4 microcontroller board with a ton of features and build to industrial standards.. It's very very powerful https://store.arduino.cc/products/portenta-h7

UK trains are even more expensive than Switzerland and this says a lot. Look at the rest of europe... you can take an Italian fast train and travel to major cities in the country very quickly, with wifi, arriving comfortably in the centre for a reasonable price.

The hardware on these products is really great but the software development experience is total HELL. I got a Siemens PLC because I wanted to write a tutorial. I just needed an app to configure it so that it would accept messages from the network. I contacted Siemens, after a while somebody replied, when they realised I wasn't going to buy 7 truckloads of PLC they told me to download the evaluation software. The UI is very convoluted, you can see that it's an oldish software with tons of features layered on top of it... I asked on forums and reddit , the reply was "watch these few dozens of videos where everything is explained.." so the PLC is sitting there on the desk waiting for me to have the time to find someone who knows how to program these who can change that 1 setting I need.. :)

I'm the co-founder of Arduino, we do provide support to industrial customers through our Arduino PRO division https://www.arduino.cc/pro we work already with a number of companies to implement our Pro products in their solutions

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-...

Arduino has a "PRO" line of products built to industrial standards which specialised devices for industrial control (PLC Like) and precision agriculture. check it out here https://www.arduino.cc/pro We work with a number of companies of different sizes to implement these new products

Thanks for the Kudos (Arduino co-founder here). Most likely they used an external service, which uses an algorithm to decide if a TM is used in the correct way or not. So the so called <profanity-word> lawyer was misguided by the work of a software engineer... anyway.. Let's not imply that all decisions are malicous and all lawyers are evil. The reality is that people make mistakes all day every day, imagine algorithms..:)