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by mbanzi 29d ago
NVIDIA is way worse and QCOM are improving
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by mbanzi 29d ago
Qualcomm is changing a lot. They are learning and adopting open source. I’ve seen this in other Silicon vendors, they used to deal only with big corps and would talk to you only if you promised to buy millions of parts. Now they are all mov
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by mbanzi 2mo ago
9600 even! :)
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by mbanzi 2mo ago
The arduino framework is optimised for ease of use. Battery powered devices were not the target back then when it was created. This benchmark should have used one of the many techniques that optimise for power consumption.
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by mbanzi 2y ago
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
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by mbanzi 2y ago
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 beca
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by mbanzi 3y ago
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 te
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by mbanzi 3y ago
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 a
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by mbanzi 3y ago
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
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by mbanzi 3y ago
What a fundamental contribution to the discussion :)
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by mbanzi 3y ago
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 "servitizat
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by mbanzi 3y ago
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 headquar
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by mbanzi 3y ago
Actually there are 21000 companies that have bough our products and 2000 of them just the professional tools... so the situation is very different
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by mbanzi 3y ago
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
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by mbanzi 3y ago
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.
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by mbanzi 3y ago
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 tha
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by mbanzi 3y ago
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 b
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by mbanzi 3y ago
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.
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by mbanzi 4y ago
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.. :)
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by mbanzi 4y ago
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 p
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by mbanzi 4y ago
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...
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by mbanzi 4y ago
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 defin
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by mbanzi 4y ago
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
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by mbanzi 4y ago
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
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by mbanzi 4y ago
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 interfac
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by mbanzi 5y ago
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
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by mbanzi 5y ago
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. I
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by mbanzi 5y ago
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.a
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by mbanzi 5y ago
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 f
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by mbanzi 5y ago
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 n

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