Qualcomm has started enshitification of Arduino
Qualcomm has started enshitification of Arduino
New Terms of Service introduce perpetual content licenses, reverse-engineering bans, and widespread data collection.

Qualcomm has started enshitification of Arduino
New Terms of Service introduce perpetual content licenses, reverse-engineering bans, and widespread data collection.

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First it was Raspberry Pi now Arduino. Is ESP32 all that’s left?
What happened with raspberry pi?
It's more expensive than what it is really worth years ago, among many other problems. It was a cheap and reliable programming platform when it was Raspberry Pi 1.
That's not enshittification, that's just a price increase. I'd hardly say it's the same as this change to arduino
Raspberry pi was founded as a cheap accessible computer that schools with few resources could afford. $25 boards, or if you had big bucks $35. With the intention the price would stay like that with improving technology. They broke this model with the rpi4 and have only gone up in price.
Isn’t Arduino more of a software framework and less about the chips themselves? Arduino can run on ESP32 and also on a huge array of ATmega mcus.
I don’t actually know that! I have fiddled with esp32 a bit and was disappointed when Pi’s priced out most of the hobbyist market
Is ESP32 open hardware?
nope.