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Arduino Corp is going CLOSED-SOURCE! (elk.zone)
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This is a big deal. Arduino has accepted 32 million in VC money and the new "Pro" boards are not open source,so they won't be as easily cloned, and code and libraries in the ide could be unavailable to see or modify!

And I won't be using any of these boards.

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[–] rasterweb@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I've been doing Arduino things for the past dozen years or so, and I was a huge supporter of the Arduino organization, and I still use the Arduino IDE, but I've mostly moved away from their boards in the past five years. I've used a lot of Teensy boards over the years (hundreds, actually) and the occasional UNO, Nano, and Micro, but the Raspberry Pi Pico has been my go-to board in the past few years, and I work in education where the micro:bit seems to really be taking off. It's a shame, because I'd love to see Arduino continue, but not as a closed-source company.