SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by aftbit on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @10:17AM (#46616986)

Oh boy, just what we need. Drama between open hardware vendors. Neither of these responses feels like the complete story to me. I hope there's a path forward to heal this rift in one way or another. Both SparkFun and Adafruit are doing amazing things for the community and I would love to see both continue to thrive.

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Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by tedivm on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:50AM (#46618438)

Note that Sparkfun has been less and less of an "open hardware" vendor, as they've dropped the open aspect on some of their most popular projects.

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Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by beambot on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:34AM (#46618195)

Seems to be the inevitable trend... Just in recent times: Pebble drama, Arduino joining the dark side, now Sparkfun & Adafruit. End of an era

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Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by ptorrone on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:41AM (#46618306)

we are sticking with open source, arduino has moved away from that and sparkfun has an open-source certification revoked due to not being open source.

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Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by qingcharles on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:53AM (#46618485)

What's the drama with Pebble? I thought everything was rosy since the reboot?

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Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by itintheory on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:44PM (#46619288)

There was conflict between the new (old) hardware manufacturer Core Devices, and the Rebble community that's maintained the app store and software for the original Pebbles. I think they've worked it out, but it got ugly for a bit.

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Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by PlatoIsADisease on Thursday January 15, 2026 @06:35AM (#46631071)

> Arduino joining the dark side

What happened?

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Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation by cyxxon on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:32AM (#46633041)

Now owned by Qualcomm, not exactly know for their open source friendly attitude.

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