Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020

Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by bsder on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:39PM (#21985903)

> And yet Arduino has created an ecosystem of libraries, tutorials, blogs and communities that changed the industry.

Has it, really? I have difficulty finding projects that went from Arduino to major success.

The only thing which (I think) has an Arduino that actually became a "success" is the Formlabs 3D SLS resin printer.

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by jkestner on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:47PM (#21986013)

Few directly to market. How they’ve changed the industry is by empowering non-EEs to prototype products that they can then take to engineers to DFM. I know of, or have built, countless products that started as Arduino prototypes, even if it was just to mock up the user experience.

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by dmd on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:15PM (#21986311)

raises hand I worked on a product (a $150000 medical device) where I started out using an Arduino, but eventually replaced it with a ATmega.

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by mkeeter on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:28PM (#21986421)

Nope, no Arduino involved! The original Form 1 and 1+ used an STM32F103. Some of the firmware used libmaple [1], which exposes an Arduino-ish API, but most of the code was low-level C and C++.

(I'm an electrical engineer at Formlabs, and was around through the Form 1+ product cycle)

[1] https://github.com/leaflabs/libmaple

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Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020 by mclightning on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:36PM (#21986494)

I think the whole Reprap project, thus cheap 3d printed market was triggered by Arduino....

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