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This is why we can't have nice things. (lemmy.world)
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/arduinos-new-terms-of-service-worries-hobbyists-ahead-of-qualcomm-acquisition/

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[–] sobchak@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago

All the open hardware and software and ecosystem was pretty cool. It was cool you could just buy hats, or whatever they're called, to add functionality, rather than designing a custom PCB and spending hundreds of dollars to get a few boards made and populated. I'm not a fan of their software stack or their choice of uC's, but they did make it easy to just kind of plug stuff together in hardware and software.