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

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• DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Welp, it was fun while it lasted for Arduino.

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• ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• limonfiesta@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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 they one of them will inevitably view all investment into Arduino as a loss center.

  Then it’s only a matter of time before they pay wall or functionality behind a subscription, Arduino Pro+++.

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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • purple_drank@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    on-board machine vision and audio recognition is super useful for a lot of sensors.

    not all AI is generative slop.

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, understandable. But I don’t think this would be “on-board”. So it would have to connect to a service or whatever. I just have a visceral negative reaction to attaching “AI” to everything.

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• crimsonpoodle@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The real translation: "You all will be streamlined in our roadmap to ensure that your solutions guarantees us profits. PROFITS!"

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I FUCKING HATE CAPITALISM SO MUCH

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• sramder@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well fork this shit ;-)

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• Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you like Arduino you should consider switching to Teensy microcontrollers and PlatformIO

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This! Teensy has been better for years now. Plus we have ESP as big players on these scene now too. Let them kill arduino. We will adapt.

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    • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have done just about all my stuff on ESPs and PlatformIO even though I have a box of arduino

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, but very worth how much better writing anything tricky or fast goes.

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• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • pelya@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They already have it, just not an IDE.

    I believe most of Arduino libraries are open-source, so they can simply fork it.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Woooooo corporate consolidation 🫠

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like corporate are locking hardware… again.

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  • crimsonpoodle@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So I don’t doubt their motives— but was there a specific thing that they said about locking hardware?

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• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  rip in pieces

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