Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI

Welp, it was fun while it lasted for Arduino.

Fuck no, are you kidding me? This is disturbing, I can see all the good going away from Arduino.

This is the kind of acquisition where it actually benefits the community with tight integration and more financial support for open development, in the short term.

But once the Arduino community has added real value to Qualcomm, they will have already cycled through multiple executive teams post acquisition, and one of them will inevitably view all investment into Arduino as a loss center.

Then it's only a matter of time before they paywall hardware functionality and updates behind a subscription, Arduino Pro+++.

Why the fuck would your Arduino board need access to “AI”?

Blarg I don’t know if corporations know what a teacher, student, or hobby is.

students, educators, and hobbyists will be empowered to rapidly prototype and test new solutions, with a clear path to commercialization

I'll do what I always do: sigh and add another brand to my "do not buy from" list on my pocket notebook, which was meant to be a single page and is now filling three

I FUCKING HATE CAPITALISM SO MUCH

Well fork this shit ;-)

Qualcomm won't send you a datasheet unless you can promise an order of 100,000. Arduino has always been open specification, and this is totally incompatible with Qualcomm.

If you like Arduino you should consider switching to Teensy microcontrollers and PlatformIO. Although platformio works with pretty much any microcontroller. Steeper learning curve than the Arduino IDE though.

So they want to sell AI shit buy buying the company that teaches children how to blink an LED. Well, this is bad news for both sides.

Now's the time for Espressif to spin off their own ecosystem.

Woooooo corporate consolidation 🫠

I’m glad I switched exclusively to Raspberry Pi years ago. I just preferred Pico.

Looks like corporate are locking hardware... again.

rip in pieces