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Re:Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more by olavgg on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:05AM (#12268778)
The big difference here is power drain. With Arduino you can use the Atmel ATmega328 microcontroller, which can run for months on 2xAA batteries.

https://www.openhomeautomation.net/arduino-battery/

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Re:Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more by snerbles on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:28AM (#12269007)
Higher source/sink current with GPIOs is also a selling point of the Arduino.
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