Discontinuing the Teensy at Adafruit

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• OnfireNFS@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So instead of selling on both Sparkfun and Adafruit, having what seems like a monopoly on Teensy style boards, they decided it would be smarter to stop selling to Adafruit and force their hand to make an open source competitor

  That’s an interesting business decision…

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  • mcavoya@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, there is more going on here than PJRC, Sparkfun or Adafruit are telling us. In no universe does simply cutting off a revenue stream make sense.

    I keep seeing the word “drama” thrown around. I suspect it’s not taking place in an online forum, but in the real world.

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• Dr_Nik@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Those that are just hand waiving that this is just “drama” either don’t understand what is going on or actively support harassment and bullying. According to what I’ve been able to understand, Sparkfun has been allowing its employees to make harassing and derogatory internal presentations targeting Adafruit employees for years. When this was brought to their attention Sparkfun did nothing. When Adafruit started probing Teensy customers for what they liked about the product Sparkfun decided to enforce a code of conduct violation and terminate supplying Teensy boards to Adafruit.

  I didn’t read through all the public messaging but I have read enough to know it would have been easy for Sparkfun to do the right thing and discourage their employees from their harassing behavior, even if it remained internal. I don’t want to support that kind of business. It makes it clear to me that Sparkfun is a boys club that is threatened by competition and would rather throw insults than make a better product.

  Adafruit has been inventive, inclusive, and added joy and whimsy in a field that is so often filled with toxicity.

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• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Guess I’m not buying anymore sparkfun stuff.

  Shame.

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is big stupid drama but there’s a long thread about it on hackernews.

  news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616488

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t really care about the drama, but I can appreciate this:

    this is exactly why we do open source. when a closed product or exclusive channel is used as leverage, the correct response is to remove the leverage.

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    • solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Meh, it’s sort of an empty gesture, as discussed in the HN thread. The “competitor” is a somewhat-compatible Teensy 3 that uses a different processor with roughly similar cpu performance. It doesn’t compete with the much faster Teensy 4 which is the only model that PJRC currently sells. And these types of boards aren’t generally about CPU performance anyway. If you want that, get a Linux board.

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• thejml@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Jan 14, 2026 – Looks like SparkFun (Nate) is trying to drag Limor and I on hackernews, here is the post and discussion. And… Paul maker of “teensyduino” for the Arduino-compatible teensy, emailed and said there is “concern” about us saying teensy-compatible for the future unreleased unnamed open source alternative.

  That not cool, bro.

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sigh. Bigger ecosystem for the rest of us I guess.

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• xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I didn’t even realize these were being manufactured by Sparkfun now. I’ve bought all my Teensy boards straight from the original designer: www.pjrc.com/store/ (It’s been several years since I’ve bought any parts)

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People other than Prusa are still using that overpriced MCU?

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