Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI (www.qualcomm.com)
from ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 13:58
https://piefed.social/post/1344814

*Sigh*…

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DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org on 07 Oct 14:16 next collapse

Welp, it was fun while it lasted for Arduino.

limonfiesta@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 15:42 next collapse

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+++.

OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 15:57 next collapse

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

pelya@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 16:08 collapse

They already have it, just not an IDE.

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

sramder@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 16:26 next collapse

Well fork this shit ;-)

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works on 07 Oct 18:18 next collapse

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

purple_drank@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 00:37 collapse

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

not all AI is generative slop.

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works on 08 Oct 01:26 collapse

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.

ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works on 07 Oct 18:24 next collapse

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

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml on 07 Oct 18:42 next collapse

I FUCKING HATE CAPITALISM SO MUCH

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 07 Oct 19:02 next collapse

Woooooo corporate consolidation 🫠

ramenshaman@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 19:32 next collapse

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.

RubberElectrons@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 23:31 next collapse

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

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works on 08 Oct 02:46 collapse

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.

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz on 08 Oct 05:31 collapse

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

vane@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 20:14 next collapse

Looks like corporate are locking hardware… again.

crimsonpoodle@pawb.social on 07 Oct 23:00 collapse

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

crimsonpoodle@pawb.social on 07 Oct 22:57 next collapse

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

Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org on 08 Oct 08:56 collapse

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

BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 00:03 next collapse

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

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works on 08 Oct 02:45 next collapse

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.

Limonene@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 05:56 collapse

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.