Steve JOct 7
benjojo

Qualcomm owns Arduino, Hackaday is owned by Siemens

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

Oct 7 at 4:37pmWeb
Show threadArch Oct 7

@benjojo Hackaday is owned by Siemens???

Alright 

Show threadTechokamiOct 7
@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/
Siemens accelerates digital marketplace strategy with acquisition of Supplyframe

Siemens accelerates digital marketplace strategy with acquisition of Supplyframe Munich, May 17, 2021 8:40 PM Central European Summer Time Siemens to acquire Supplyframe, a leading and fast-growing marketplace for the global electronics value chain Combining Supplyframe’s knowhow with Siemens’ leading software enables customers to innovate and develop products faster Supplyframe to be the nucleus of […]

Supplyframe
Show threadTechokamiOct 7
@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
Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI

Show threadNyan MaxOct 7
@benjojo ESP32?
Show threadJoseMOct 7
@benjojo
Yes
Free, free market
Show threadvriska, thief of light Oct 7
@benjojo huh, siemens owns hackaday?? seems like they really wanted tindie and hackaday was incidental but that's still kind of weird
Show threadmorganOct 8
@leo @benjojo where do you get they only wanted Tindie? It's been just as, if not more neglected since the purchase, in particular, it seem in-progress plans to offer a disbursement provider that's not PayPal ground to a halt.
Show threadmorganOct 8
@leo @benjojo Far as I can tell, they wanted Supply Frame/Parts.io/Findchips and got all the rest
Show threadvriska, thief of light Oct 8
@morgan @benjojo siemen press release for the acquisition says it "will be the nucleus to accelerate our overall digital marketplace strategy", are supplyframe/findchips a "marketplace"?
Show threadmorganOct 8
@leo @benjojo yup, and a far more lucrative one that Tindie
Show threadmorganOct 8
@leo @benjojo there's also a couple more sites in that whole ecosystem I can't remember, they're targeted to large corporate buyers
Show threadChrisOct 7
@benjojo
Heimweg...musste wieder den Bus nehmen. Dann Panik, es war die selbe Busfahrerin wie gestern. Die mit dem Bleifuss.
Bilder von Keanu Reeves gingen mir erneut, zusammen mit der Titelmelodie von Speed, durch den Kopf. Wie ueberleben war die Frage?
Ausser einem kleinen Vollgassmoment, gab es jedoch ansonsten keine Beinahlebensbeendenen Ereignisse. Ueberlege es Ihrem Arbeitgeber zu melden.... 🤔
Show threadSenator FiveyOct 7
@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.
Show threadKeenan TimsOct 7

@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.

Show threadPaul ‮etnomailgaTOct 7
@benjojo TIL, nuts
Show threadOzzelot Oct 7
@benjojo I was a fan of Siemens cellphones... and their expansive modding scene.So I didn't really enjoy the devices because of Siemens, but rather despite Siemens.
Show threadManMachineOct 8
@ozzelot @benjojo pre-smartphone Siemens homebrew scene was wild!
Show threadOzzelot Oct 8
@manmachine @benjojo And by extension Sony Ericsson, which is where I started... but the DCT-3 Nokias were pretty good too.
Show threadMr_Hat_2010Oct 7
@benjojo hackaday being owned by Siemens explains so much ...
Show threadDavid PollakOct 7

@benjojo @stevej 🤗🤗🤗

I learned on a HeathKit ET-3400… back when one could send a self addressed stamped envelope to Motorola and get the data sheet for any of their microprocessors

https://archive.org/details/HeathkitManualForTheEt-3400MicroprocessorTrainer

Heathkit Manual for the ET-3400 Microprocessor Trainer : Heathkit : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Heathkit Manual for the ET-3400 Microprocessor Trainer

Internet Archive
Show threadPeter Jakobs ⛵Oct 9
@benjojo I think Arduino (the company) isn't quite as important anymore. There are compatible frameworks (PlatformIO) and Frameworks that can use many Arduino libraries (Sming, which is fully open and free) that can fill the gap.
Arduino has played a great role in getting this whole new hacker generation going, now the space has it's own momentum.
Show threadRootWyrm 🇺🇦Oct 14
@benjojo good news!
They won't provide datasheets to you now either!
Show threadTea time.Oct 17

@benjojo You think that's bad?
I used to manage many of the volunteer teams at LiveJournal.com, back when it was a community-run, donation-funded, open source social media community.

It's now part of a media conglomerate that's majority-owned by the Russian government.

Show threadltningOct 23
@benjojo they still won't.