@benjojo At least there's still Raspberry Pi? 😅

@benjojo Hackaday is owned by Siemens???

Alright

@arch @benjojo Had to double check and uh, yeah... short version is that HaD is owned by Supplyframe, but then a few years back, Siemens bought Supplyframe: https://intelligence.supplyframe.com/siemens-accelerates-digital-marketplace-strategy-with-acquisition-of-supplyframe/

@arch @benjojo But Qualcomm buying Arduino is news: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i

@benjojo oh I didn’t know the Siemens thing, that’s sad :(

@benjojo ESP32?

@maxxcan @benjojo You can just buy the AVR/ATmega chips that are in Arduino. It's a lot cheaper, and you can make your designs smaller.

@benjojo huh, siemens owns hackaday?? seems like they really wanted tindie and hackaday was incidental but that's still kind of weird

@benjojo

"My teenage electronics hobby landscape is now owned by the companies that would never supply datasheets to me back then"

OH! YES EXACTLY!!! I can still remember the handful of kind phone-answerers who would send this teenager datasheets and sometimes SAMPLES!!!! And the opposite for those mean tightwads.

@benjojo excited for 10 new arduino boards made with a normal mcu taped on to the least documented soc you have ever seen

@benjojo it is painfully funny how often this happens. These companies go through phases where they realize they need outreach to students/hobbyists but their corporate structures make it hard to let students/hobbyists have access to their products so instead they do random acquisitions in the hobbyist space which doesn’t actually help much.

@benjojo And Raspberry Pi has (always had) a much too close relationship with Broadcom, one of the worst offenders...

This is weird though, what does Qualcomm get out of Arduino? It's completely disjoint from their market...

Sucks.

@benjojo TIL, nuts

@benjojo Hardware gentrification.

@benjojo hackaday being owned by Siemens explains so much ...