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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by thom_nic on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:28AM (#14848460)
I would have said form factor. Commercial has all signals routed to high pitch headers, with few or no on-board jacks, also many times surface mount.

Also there are places where Linux is appropriate and affordable at volume, depending on the application.

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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:39PM (#14849216)
Some Arduino IDE-compatible boards are pretty small, like the Teensy[1] line - though if you needed to cram other boards in with one it'd still be cozy I imagine.

1: https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy.html

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Re:The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market by thom_nic on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:50PM (#14849367)
In the case of teensy you've pretty much got just a chip with breakout (and maybe an FTDI chip) - it's pretty much a reference design. At that point you'd just board-down that entire layout, there's little benefit to buying a module with a mini USB connector that might or might not be in a usable position and high-pitch headers that take up a lot of space.
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