benjojoOct 7, 2025

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

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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

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