You’ve probably already noticed this, but Arduino.cc seem to have rolled out a new brand called “Genuino” – which is a joint venture between Arduino and Adafruit to manufacture in the USA. – Though I find it slightly unclear precisely what this means, apart from branding and being related to the ongoing legal battles.
The Adafuit deal reflects the move to an alternate manufacturing partner for at least some of the Arduino product line. The items will still be branded “Arduino”, at least for sale in the US.
Thanks, I think I misunderstood this first paragraph
Through a U.S. manufacturing partnership with Adafruit and the launch of a new global sister brand called Genuino, Arduino.cc today announces a couple of big moves that address the manufacturing challenges that have emerged for the company over the past few months.
It probably has nothing to do with Adafruit.
In USA it will be Adafruit (don’t know if there are others)
In China SeedStudio with Genuino brand.
Don’t know Europe. I bought some Arduino from RS Components, they are produced by Arduino.org but there is a transition since i found stickers that covered the previous brand. I believe that they are looking for a producer in Europe.
It seems that Arduino.cc has the brand only in USA so they will use Genuino in all other countries. I believe that an Arduino sold in Canada will have the Genuino brand but will be produced by Adafruit, or maybe not.
I suspect it might gain some street cred with the hacker crowd. Look out for cheap knock offs branded as Guneino Jenuino and such ilk. I suspect it might gain some street cred with the hacker crowd. Look out for cheap knock offs branded as Guneino Jenuino and such ilk. I suspect it might gain some street cred with the hacker crowd. Look out for cheap knock offs branded as Guneino Jenuino and such ilk.To me, it sounds like they are not as open hardware as they claim to be. Yes we keep the designs open because they were already open and we can’t close them, but you better buy our first quality board. I think at some point they are going to start closing things, code, hardware designs…
Its all a bit vague, and not very open, i.e. perhaps it is open if you can manage to find the hardware files they used, but Arduino don’t seem to publish the hardware designs and PCB etc they actually used for the Yun’s wifi / processor module
From what I remember for open-source debate, it seems that some binary blobs are used from Atheros, but there are maybe open-source equivalent,
especially that this AR9331 is used elsewhere. So, to get the True, maybe we need to ask the question to the expert Squonk (who has now worked with GliNet on Domino I/O. BTW, I’m waiting for some of those Domino I/O in the following days/weeks, since I’ve pledged for them on Kickstarter)
I believe that Atheros drivers are not closed source since in openWRT (and DD-WRT) you can find the sources. Broadcom drivers instead are closed sources, in openWRT the drivers are not optimal since they are based on reverse engiinering of the original binary.
But since the born of ESP8266 I am not interested anymore in this board too.
Anyway, since the interesting is the communication between the two chips Atmel and Atheros, I believe that I can use a wifi router with openWRT with a serial port like the WR703n.
But in the end I used some smaller devices attached to an Arduino, and more recently, like you say, its all been replaced by devices like the ESP8266
Of course a lot of the OS on the ESP8266 is closed source, which is one of the big problems with that device, as Expressif don’t seem to be that communicate with the open source developer community.
but the Arduino core and this modified core: https://github.com/sandeepmistry/esp8266-Arduino which will work on non-BoardManager versions appear to be the way to go
Sandeepmistry repo is a fork from original IGRR’s one, and it seems that not updated frequently, it is better to use IGRR’s official repo from https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino
but the Arduino core and this modified core: https://github.com/sandeepmistry/esp8266-Arduino which will work on non-BoardManager versions appear to be the way to go
Sandeepmistry repo is a fork from original IGRR’s one, and it seems that not updated frequently, it is better to use IGRR’s official repo from https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino
