PaulStoffregen
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I'm sure everyone's seen the news that broke today on Hack-a-Day and Heise, or will see it soon.
Does anyone have any inside info?
Does anyone have any inside info?
Bottom line is that the Arduino, LLC does not need Smart Devices SRL. They have multiple chip manufacturers sniffing around looking for an in.
Keys to success include:
- Robust software support for the hardware (i.e. no ongoing issues like embed) - and you need scale for this (i.e. hire a couple of professionals),
- Vast library collections being adequately maintained (you need a small army of smart volunteers for this), and
- Great Tech Support and/or Forums continuing to flourish (i.e. a ton of happy volunteers willing to give away their time for free).
If Smart Devices wants to fork, they cannot likely do the above on their own - mbed, Digilent, Maple, and others have gone down this path before. They will need a large community. I'm not convinced that they are going to get that support at this time.
Does anyone know how Linino & Dog Hunter fit into all this?
They also had a kickstarter campaign for their yellow boards (originally called smARtDUINO), that flamed out (read the comments section for the juicy bits): https://www.kickstarter.com/project...n-system-by-former-arduinos-manufact/comments
At some point, it would be really nice if we could hook a real (opensource) debugger up to a future generation of Teensy, that didn't cost an arm and a leg. In the end, I didn't back galago. However debugging consumer embedded boards still feels like I'm in the card punch era (which I did program in).