Martin SeegerOct 7

Everyone with an Arduino project has, starting as of NOW, six months to look for a replacement.

If you don't start right away, I can point out someone who will be in a lot of pain in a few months.

Believe me...

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i

I know this will play merry hell with the 3d printer and mechanical keyboard scene. Innumerable hardware will die from this takeover.

#arduino #qualcomm

Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI

Show threadacb
@masek Who owns Teensy? (It’s a US company, IIRC?) Beyond that, there’s the Raspberry Pi Pico, and possibly some Chinese boards (which may or may not be an issue)
Oct 7 at 5:15pmIceCubesApp
Show threadMariusOct 7

@acb @masek

Teensy is very small, I think its basically one couple with some employees to help out.

Their website (pjrc.com ) is glorious, a complete throwback to the old web. It's their personal website with holiday pictures from the 1990s or so on it, mixed with the company info.

Show threadF4GRX SébastienOct 7
@Zamfr @acb @masek pjrc did 8051 stuff way before arduino was conceived.
Show threadPaul StoffregenOct 8
@f4grx @Zamfr @acb @masek Yup. In other words, I'm old.
Show threadBredrollOct 7
@Zamfr @acb @masek https://www.pjrc.com/ love it! tempted to buy a thing just because of the html
PJRC: Electronic Projects

Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Oct 7

@acb I think @PaulStoffregen is still the person behind PJRC (Well, half of PJRC!)

The Teensy boards are great, but often overkill in terms of features and price for what I need. They used to have an LC (Low Cost) board but all their boards now are easily double the price those were.

Show threadPaul StoffregenOct 8

@rasterweb @acb SparkFun is now pretty involved in Teensy since we've partnered with them for manufacturing.

Before March 2025 Robin & I used 2 contract manufacturers, who soldered everything on consignment (we purchased all parts). With hourly workers we hired every Teensy was tested, packaged and shipped from Oregon, USA.

As Teensy grew that became unsustainable for us.

On paper, Robin & I still own Teensy. We still control the tech decisions. But reality is SparkFun deeply involved now.