So I hope this does not go as bad for Arduino as it went for VMWare!
Kinda scares me. Pi’s are already artificially inflated from the chip fiasco, and never dropped. Now these greedy buggers buy em, not good in my opinion!
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Well, this new board they are coming out with is interesting. May give Raspberry Pi some competition depending on pricing.
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We are clear that Qualcomm bought Arduino, and NOT Raspberry Pi, right??
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Oops - My bad. Removed my errant post.
they are releasing a competitor in the Uno Q… so there was Raspberry Pi related stuff in the news, so it could have caused some confusion for some.
Hopefully the Uno Q can maybe ease the demand a bit and drop the Pi prices back down some.
For Arduino, there is plenty of Chinese knock-off competition, which keeps prices somewhat in check. Worst case, they start developing new boards, closed source. In order to sell, they need to offer functionality superior to current offerings then, and support for the huge variety of hats and devices that use Arduinos.
In no case will the proliferarion of clones go away. Those are open source and they can’t close that door now. Boards based on Arduino architecture like the RAMBo or the SKR boards will continue to be produced, if need be as processors come out, updated.
I 100% agree that Broadcom really screwed the pooch with VMWare, but that was/is a closed source commercial.product.
Qualcomm != Broadcom.
The Arduino UNO Q is now available to order in 2GB/16GB form from the Arduino Store and official resellers at $44, with shipping beginning on 25 October; the 4GB/32GB variant will open for orders in November at $59 with a view to shipping “by end of year,” Arduino has promised.
My bad, you are correct, I am incorrect. The articles I read said Raspberry pi, but then when I re-read them they are trying to compete, sorry!
Well, I guess I was looking towards the purchase aspect, I did have my lines blurred though!
nah, it’s fine.
There’s enough clarity if they actually read the thread, and the title is correct if that’s all they read.
I was actually surprised it took this long for it to be mentioned here lol
I saw the news when it popped up. Thought there was going to be an immediate thread
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yeah, it hit my news feed this a.m. Maybe it keyed off of the Pi in the title.
I also read during work hours, so I did not put a lot of effort into it, my apologies to all!
“Qualcomm didn’t announce a price for the transaction, but said the Italy-based company would become an independent subsidiary.”
I assume they’ll have to disclose the price at least in their next earnings call, etc.
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I see 47 GBP which currently is $63.45 before shipping.
Yes on my laptop. But on my phone it asked to change locations and shows $44. Looks a lot like an R4
Curious if this bundling and creating all in one board will attract and benefit Makers who actively tinker and iterate their projects…
For example, I accidentally killed an Arduino Nano 33 recently… The relatively high replacement price was enough to push me to port code to ESP32 instead.
I like being able to pair a Linux capable controller (like Pi zero/4/5) with separate, cheap, easy to iterate and replace 1-to-many microcontrollers (e.g. ESP32).
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The GPIO on the Pi has always been great. But I usually do tinkering with electronics with something cheaper and more real time. Linux is great. Linux with GPIO is great too. But digital logic in Linux, especially fast protocols, is doing it the hard way.
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Hmm.
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